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pip-and-virtualenv
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This element installs pip and virtualenv in the image.
Package install
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If the package installtype is used then these programs are installed
from distribution packages. In this case, ``pip`` and ``virtualenv``
will be installed *only* for the python version identified by
``dib-python`` (i.e. the default python for the platform).
Distribution packages have worked out name-spacing such that only
python2 or python3 owns common scripts like ``/usr/bin/pip`` (on most
platforms, ``pip`` refers to python2 pip, and ``pip3`` refers to
python3 pip, although some may choose the reverse).
To install pip and virtualenv from package::
export DIB_INSTALLTYPE_pip_and_virtualenv=package
Source install
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Source install is the default. If the source installtype is used,
``pip`` and ``virtualenv`` are installed from the latest upstream
releases.
Source installs from these tools are not name-spaced. It is
inconsistent across platforms if the first or last install gets to own
common scripts like ``/usr/bin/pip`` and ``virtualenv``.
To avoid inconsistency, we firstly install the packaged python 2
**and** 3 versions of ``pip`` and ``virtualenv``. This prevents a
later install of these distribution packages conflicting with the
source install. We then overwrite ``pip`` and ``virtualenv`` via
``get-pip.py`` and ``pip`` respectively.
The system will be left in the following state:
* ``/usr/bin/pip`` : python2 pip
* ``/usr/bin/pip2`` : python2 pip (same as prior)
* ``/usr/bin/pip3`` : python3 pip
* ``/usr/bin/virtualenv`` : python2 virtualenv
(note python3 ``virtualenv`` script is *not* installed, see below)
Source install is supported on limited platforms. See the code, but
this includes Ubuntu and RedHat platforms.
Using the tools
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Due to the essentially unsolvable problem of "who owns the script", it
is recommended to *not* call ``pip`` or ``virtualenv`` directly. You
can directly call them with the ``-m`` argument to the python
interpreter you wish to install with.
For example, to create a python3 environment do::
# python3 -m virtualenv myenv
# myenv/bin/pip install mytool
To install a python2 tool from pip::
# python2 -m pip install mytool
In this way, you can always know which interpreter is being used (and
affected by) the call.
Ordering
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Any element that uses these commands must be designated as
05-* or higher to ensure that they are first installed.
