Welcome to #linux! It's super easy! To install packages, just use the GUI... oh. Oh that one. Well, that is super easy too! Just open a terminal and type pip3 .... oh, that? Yeah, you just have to figure out what a virtual environment is, figure out how to create one, whether to create a new one every time, how to manage it, and how to install your software using that! Oh you'll need some other libraries for that, and maybe to install some new things in the venv and oh yeah that's a common problem. It just means you have to... where are you going? It's super easy!
pipx seems like a good alternative except apparently it can't install what I need, for some reason. Back to trying to figure out how to set up and use virtual environments so I can install a damn thing.
Edit: It's not actually hard to do this, unless there are complications. It's just yet another damn thing to remember, and more steps to go through. Hoping this #pipx tool gets developed enough that it can do all of this with one command.
Edit 2: So I'm not That Asshole: what I did, from here
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv /bin/activate
pip3 install [the software]
deactivate
Those are all easy commands, and I will 100% need to search for them next time (unless I use this #uv thing just recommended to me!)
#python #argh #userfriendly