- 1 year ago
How is .local folder created with pipx in MSYS2?
When you install a package using pipx
, it creates a virtual environment for that package in the ~/.local/pipx/venvs
directory. The ~/.local
directory is a hidden folder in the user's home directory and is created automatically by Python's packaging tools when installing packages with the --user
option.
In MSYS2, the ~/.local
folder is located at C:\msys64\home\your-username\.local
. When you install pipx
in MSYS2, it creates a shell script pipx
in /usr/local/bin
that sets the appropriate environment variables and runs the Python script in the virtual environment for the selected package.
To create the ~/.local
folder in MSYS2, you can install a Python package using pip
with the --user
option, for example:
csspython -m pip install --user requests
This will create the ~/.local
directory and install the requests
package in it. You can then install pipx
using pip
:
csspython -m pip install --user pipx
After installing pipx
, you can use it to install packages and create virtual environments in the ~/.local/pipx/venvs
directory, for example:
pipx install cookiecutter
This will create a virtual environment for the cookiecutter
package in ~/.local/pipx/venvs/cookiecutter
.