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		lmm on March 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Python virtual environments work Presumably they're not managed by your system package manager? Or you have one of the rare and relatively new distributions (certainly not typical Linux) that can handle that smoothly, like NixOS?

selcuka on March 14, 2023 [–]

Quite typical: Linux Mint, managed by apt with a third party repository [1].

On Mac I simply use the official installers from python.org.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

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