error: externally-managed-environment

[Shiva0krishna]

Description

Installations in the python environement in Ubuntu is conflicting system-wide installations.

Steps to reproduce

Navigate to eSim directory :
cd eSim-2.4
Make the Installation Script Executable:
chmod +x install-eSim.sh
Run the Installation Script:
./install-eSim.sh --install

Comment out the code

       echo "Installing Distutils......................."
      sudo apt-get install -y python3-distutils  

cause this is yet an other error needs to solved.

Expected behavior

Installation of watchdog

Screenshots

Additional files

Version and OS

• eSim version - eSim-2.4
• OS: [e.g. Windows 11, 64 bit, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS]

[092vk]

Why this issue is happening :
Recent versions of Ubuntu (22.04 and later) and Debian have adopted a policy to prevent direct use of pip to install Python packages system-wide. So as we can see in error , it is suggesting that if you want to install a non-debian packaged python package you have to do it using apt , use of pip is discouraged in global context as mentioned above to avoid conflict with apt .

Solution :
As mentioned in log itself you can use tools like pipx or create a virtual environment to avoid any conflict.

Using pipx : pipx install Watchdog(any other package)

Using venv (Recommended):

1.Install venv package if not already present in your Ubantu
--> sudo apt install python3-venv

Navigate to eSim directory
-->cd eSim-2.4

2.Create a Virtual Environment named eSim
--> python3 -m venv eSim

3.Activate the Virtual Environment
--> source eSim/bin/activate

4.Make the Installation Script Executable:
-->chmod +x install-eSim.sh

5.Run the Installation Script:
-->./install-eSim.sh --install

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