1: usually you can just run the binary by its path. tbh I don't fully understand why it doesn't always work, but it's fairly rare, and most of the ones I can k

1: usually you can just run the binary by its path. tbh I don't fully understand why it doesn't always work, but it's fairly rare, and most of the ones I can kinda-remember may have been during install time. 2: due to 1, symlinks often work. It's how I've installed all of my custom python binaries. Otherwise you'll very frequently see python "binaries" installed by e.g. Homebrew that are actually ~5 lines of minor environment prep and then running the actual binary - that's the only reliable way afaik. Bonus answer to 2: pipx looks pretty decent.