Its more probable that you are trying to install the deps in the system python. And using pip instal xxxxx -u will install them in your user directory rather th

Its more probable that you are trying to install the deps in the system python. And using pip instal xxxxx -u will install them in your user directory rather than the system. I'm pretty sure modern Ubuntu warns you against doing that now anyway. If you're installing for a small script then doing python -m venv little_project in you home dir is straightforward, just active it after [1] I'm using rye[2] now and its very similar to Rust's Cargo, it wraps a bunch of the standard toolchain and manages standalone python versions in the background, so doesn't fall into the trap of linux system python issues. [1]https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html [2]https://rye.astral.sh/ https://rye.astral.sh/