virtualenv error when installing upnpclient

[sarmong]

I am not very familiar with python, so I want to understand what the proper way to install it is.

I am on Debian and pip install upnpclient fails with error: externally-managed-environment.

The suggested solutions there include

• install from apt (not available there)
• create venv
• run with --break-system-packages

I tried creating venv, but that means that I need to activate it each time I want to run mpv. Also, it won't work if mpv is launched as a desktop app from mpv.desktop.

[chachmu]

Unfortunately, I haven't found a great solution to newer versions of linux preventing pip dependencies from being installed system wide. The easy fix is to just install it with --break-system-packages but it really isn't the correct way to fix the problem. I am working on converting mpvDLNA to not require upnpclient but it will probably be a while before that is ready.

I did consider a possibility of having mpvDLNA use venv when it calls the python script which might be an option, but it takes some work to set up and may require a bit of debugging to get it working. I posted about it in a different issue: #16 (comment).