"error: externally-managed-environment" on macOS 14.3.1 about dotrun HOT 3 OPEN

Seems like more people are started to be affected by this.

This seems like some new feature of Python environments to provide more security for the OS-maintainer Python packages.
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/externally-managed-environments/#externally-managed-environments

I don't know enough about Python envs to suggest a solution, seems like official answer is to use pipx.

I guess we would need to test if dotrun works with pipx and update our install instructions.

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Adding a +1 here, as I also just got this error on a Xubuntu 24.04 install. I was also unable to immediately resolve this using pipx, as this becomes a bit of a rabbit hole in which pipx also needs access to Docker, which then also has to be installed via pipx, etc.

I resolved using an unpleasant command line flag: sudo pip3 install dotrun --break-system-packages, but this obviously isn't optimal.

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pipx is a safe way to install and run dotrun, so I will update the README to include installation instructions with pipx and make an install script so we can simply do this to install pipx + dotrun:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/canonical/dotrun/main/install.sh

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