Don't mix yum/dnf and pip for installation of system-wide Python packages
Posted on Fri 13 January 2017 in Python • Tagged with yum, dnf, pip, python, packaging, virtualenv, fedora, centos, rhel • Leave a comment
Too many times I've seen people using a mix of yum/ dnf and pip for installation of system-wide Python packages This causes all sorts of problems .
TL; DR Install system-wide Python packages with yum/dnf and only use pip inside a virtual environment. For an example, see my Ansible snippet below .
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