I really don't see the problem here - you have two options, both of which involve one install command and at most a one-step setup process: 1. A user install:

I really don't see the problem here - you have two options, both of which involve one install command and at most a one-step setup process: 1. A user install: `pip install [package]` and make sure "$HOME/.local/bin" is on your PATH 2. A global install: `sudo pip install [package]` - it will be installed to a dir on your path already (/usr/bin I think) As for why pip si not ideal for installing software: it's not supposed to be. It's a Python package manager, not a software package manager. It's meant to install libraries for the Python interpreter to import, not commands for you to run. Of course, people do often library managers to install software (npm, cargo, go...), but the experience is the same in all of them - either you install with sudo and it "just works", but might cause problems later, or you install in "local" mode which requires you to add a the package managers's directory to your path.