Problem with pip vs pacman

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If I use the pacman installed versions of pyqtwebengine / pyqt5 / sip, then my installation of emacs-eaf does not work.

If I use pip installed versions, it does work, but then as soon as something updates or needs pacman versions of these packages it doesn’t.

e.g. I installed calibre and got a load of python packages, that overwrote my pip installations :frowning:

I got around it with installing the repo versions and the force installing the pip versions:

sudo pip install pyqtwebengine --force

But obviously this is a bit precarious, I am going to add them to IgnorePkg, but wondered if there was a better way?

BTW eaf is emacs application framework, so I can open a browser in emacs:

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Do not use sudo with pip. If you need python packages installed globally use pacman or yay.

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Using sudo pip on any Arch based distro is going to be a nightmare.

I am not familiar with emacs-eaf but typically you would use pip without sudo to install those components to your home directory and then have the application use those.

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Have too, emacs does not see a user installation of the packages, tried it. Sudo is the only way to get it running.

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What did you try to make emacs use your local python path?

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There is no option for emacs to see a user vs a root, it looks only in the /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages directory. Been using this for close to a year, it has always been fiddly.

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kinda off topic but I have a question about pip; how do you unisntall programs insatlled with pip?

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pip uninstall packagename

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#uninstalling-packages

If you installed them with sudo pip you need to use sudo pip to remove them.

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tried that - it was the first I thought of - but no it didn’t work

I don’t remember everything now - but I read a lot about it to figure it out and there was some commands with options but those didn’t work either

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Can you give us a little more background here? How did you install them in the first place? What pip command did you run specifically and what error did you receive?

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sorry my bad it wasn’t pip it was npm

I just checked the package and it was npm

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