pipx and shell enhancer

[Thadir]

Gooday,

I was somone can help me as I am tryingto figure out as brew has moved over to opholding the pep-0668. I tries installing some of my pyton comandline tools to pipx.

And powerline-status seems to work great. But its extendable with other libraries they call segments. Like for example powerline-gitstatus.

But installing the plugin pipx is giving the following comment:

No apps associated with package powerline-gitstatus or its dependencies. If you are attempting to install a library, pipx should not be used. Consider using pip or a similar tool instead.

How do I fix this.

[Gitznik]

I assume you probably want to inject the libraries into the main powerline-status installation.

The respective command for this is pipx inject <application> <extension>, so in your case pipx inject powerline-status powerline-gitstatus

[Thadir]

Quesstion where could I have red that in the manual I completly overlooked and worked as a charm

[Gitznik]

It is mentioned a few times within the docs (e.g. here on the main page). But yeah, we get this question quite regularly. Maybe we can reword the docs slightly to make this feature easier to discover.

[Thadir]

I think it would be helpful to provide a hint after running pipx install . This could be done by suggesting the appropriate command.

Additionally, in the case of an installation error, it would be beneficial to offer a hint, such as “Are you trying to do a extention maybe try?” and suggest the relevant command.

Many users expect pipx to be a drop-in replacement for pip, but it actually performs more complex operations under the hood. Including a link to the manual when unexpected behavior occurs could help clarify this and reduce the number of questions.