help with transition from pip to pipx because of exernally-managed-environment error

[ghost]

I had a program installed with pip before they broke it with that exernally-managed-environment error. So my only choices are that break-system option which sounds scary and install the program again with pipx.

But when I installed it again with pipx it's using the program from pip instead, so it's an old version I can't update any longer.

Because of the externally-managed-environment error I can't uninstall the program with pip.

What's the best way in your opinion to fix this?

[uranusjr]

You can delete the executable manually with rm before installing it with pipx. With pip >=23.2 you can also use --break-system-packages to forcefully uninstall the package.