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+title: "pipx"
+category: "Languages and runtimes"
+tagline: "Installs Python command-line apps, each in its own isolated environment."
+source: "pacman"
+package: "python-pipx"
+command: "pipx"
+website: "https://pipx.pypa.io/"
+code: "https://github.com/pypa/pipx"
+---
+
+## What it is
+
+pipx installs Python applications, the kind you run as commands, into separate virtual environments and puts their commands in `~/.local/bin`. Each app gets its own copy of its dependencies, so apps can't break each other or the system's Python.
+
+## Why it's here
+
+- **Safe installs.** Python apps from PyPI without touching the system Python.
+- **One command per app.** `pipx install`, `pipx upgrade` and `pipx uninstall`.
+- **Try before you install.** `pipx run` runs an app once without keeping it.
+
+## On CoreDesktop
+
+pipx is installed from pacman, and CoreDesktop uses it to install terrahour and gext, the command-line tool that installs its GNOME extensions. `update` upgrades the pipx apps CoreDesktop installs, and when Arch moves to a new Python version, which breaks pipx environments, it rebuilds all of them. Apps you install yourself are upgraded by you:
+
+```
+pipx upgrade-all
+```