How to avoid pip install global packages accidentally?

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Sometimes I forget to activate the virtual environment before executing the pip install command, which causes a bunch of useless global pip packages. Some of them are not able to be uninstalled directly using pip (dateutils issue).

I wonder how I can avoid such accidents?

Can I disable pip for non-root users and only permit sudo pip?

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Ssuching Yu

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As far as I know, pip will install to your home directory if you didn't run sudo. So, you should be able to delete what you've accidentally installed. But something you could do that addresses your question is create an alias in .bash_aliases so that pip maps to something (i.e., an echo command that laughs at you :-) ). What I don't know is if you activate a virtual environment, whether the path to its pip is guaranteed to precede the alias. If this doesn't work, you can add a pip executable file and a path leading to it.
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I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for. FWIW, I had sudo access on a (shared) server and I sometimes stupidly do a sudo reboot on it instead of the (unshared) desktop I'm on. (i.e., I type it so quickly that I didn't think carefully...) To "solve" this, I aliased "sudo" to give me a message on the server. It wasn't an elegant solution, but it solved my problem.
– Ray
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As far as I know, pip will install to your home directory if you didn't run sudo. So, you should be able to delete what you've accidentally installed. But something you could do that addresses your question is create an alias in .bash_aliases so that pip maps to something (i.e., an echo command that laughs at you :-) ). What I don't know is if you activate a virtual environment, whether the path to its pip is guaranteed to precede the alias. If this doesn't work, you can add a pip executable file and a path leading to it.
– Ray
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I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for. FWIW, I had sudo access on a (shared) server and I sometimes stupidly do a sudo reboot on it instead of the (unshared) desktop I'm on. (i.e., I type it so quickly that I didn't think carefully...) To "solve" this, I aliased "sudo" to give me a message on the server. It wasn't an elegant solution, but it solved my problem.
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As far as I know, pip will install to your home directory if you didn't run sudo. So, you should be able to delete what you've accidentally installed. But something you could do that addresses your question is create an alias in .bash_aliases so that pip maps to something (i.e., an echo command that laughs at you :-) ). What I don't know is if you activate a virtual environment, whether the path to its pip is guaranteed to precede the alias. If this doesn't work, you can add a pip executable file and a path leading to it.
– Ray
2 days ago

1

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for. FWIW, I had sudo access on a (shared) server and I sometimes stupidly do a sudo reboot on it instead of the (unshared) desktop I'm on. (i.e., I type it so quickly that I didn't think carefully...) To "solve" this, I aliased "sudo" to give me a message on the server. It wasn't an elegant solution, but it solved my problem.
– Ray
2 days ago

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1

As far as I know, pip will install to your home directory if you didn't run sudo. So, you should be able to delete what you've accidentally installed. But something you could do that addresses your question is create an alias in .bash_aliases so that pip maps to something (i.e., an echo command that laughs at you :-) ). What I don't know is if you activate a virtual environment, whether the path to its pip is guaranteed to precede the alias. If this doesn't work, you can add a pip executable file and a path leading to it.
– Ray
2 days ago

1

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for. FWIW, I had sudo access on a (shared) server and I sometimes stupidly do a sudo reboot on it instead of the (unshared) desktop I'm on. (i.e., I type it so quickly that I didn't think carefully...) To "solve" this, I aliased "sudo" to give me a message on the server. It wasn't an elegant solution, but it solved my problem.
– Ray
2 days ago

As far as I know, pip will install to your home directory if you didn't run sudo. So, you should be able to delete what you've accidentally installed. But something you could do that addresses your question is create an alias in .bash_aliases so that pip maps to something (i.e., an echo command that laughs at you :-) ). What I don't know is if you activate a virtual environment, whether the path to its pip is guaranteed to precede the alias. If this doesn't work, you can add a pip executable file and a path leading to it.
– Ray
2 days ago

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for. FWIW, I had sudo access on a (shared) server and I sometimes stupidly do a sudo reboot on it instead of the (unshared) desktop I'm on. (i.e., I type it so quickly that I didn't think carefully...) To "solve" this, I aliased "sudo" to give me a message on the server. It wasn't an elegant solution, but it solved my problem.
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I am not as good at writing bash scripts but you can replace the pip command with an alias in your bashrc with this script

if [[ $(python -c 'import sys; print (sys.real_prefix)' 2>/dev/null) ]]; then

 /path/to/actual/pip/executable install $1;

else

 echo "not in a virtual env";

fi

This script solve your problem. If there is anyone who can find an issue in the script or improve it, please do.

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I am not as good at writing bash scripts but you can replace the pip command with an alias in your bashrc with this script

if [[ $(python -c 'import sys; print (sys.real_prefix)' 2>/dev/null) ]]; then

 /path/to/actual/pip/executable install $1;

else

 echo "not in a virtual env";

fi

This script solve your problem. If there is anyone who can find an issue in the script or improve it, please do.

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I am not as good at writing bash scripts but you can replace the pip command with an alias in your bashrc with this script

if [[ $(python -c 'import sys; print (sys.real_prefix)' 2>/dev/null) ]]; then

 /path/to/actual/pip/executable install $1;

else

 echo "not in a virtual env";

fi

This script solve your problem. If there is anyone who can find an issue in the script or improve it, please do.

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I am not as good at writing bash scripts but you can replace the pip command with an alias in your bashrc with this script

if [[ $(python -c 'import sys; print (sys.real_prefix)' 2>/dev/null) ]]; then

 /path/to/actual/pip/executable install $1;

else

 echo "not in a virtual env";

fi

This script solve your problem. If there is anyone who can find an issue in the script or improve it, please do.

edited 2 days ago

answered 2 days ago

akabhirav

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I am not as good at writing bash scripts but you can replace the pip command with an alias in your bashrc with this script

if [[ $(python -c 'import sys; print (sys.real_prefix)' 2>/dev/null) ]]; then

 /path/to/actual/pip/executable install $1;

else

 echo "not in a virtual env";

fi

This script solve your problem. If there is anyone who can find an issue in the script or improve it, please do.

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