Does the Python package install the CLI ?

[ReHoss]

Hi everyone,

Sorry if my question is naive.

I installed the python package jsonschema in a new conda environment through conda install jsonschema. I feel like this installed a binary in /usr/bin/jsonschema and added it to the bash PATH.

Am I right ? If so, I did not know a conda package could modify PATH and /usr/bin. It's fine but have you some specific references/explainations on this behavior for conda/pip in order to better understand what I do with my computer ?

Thank you,

[Julian]

The answer to the question in the title is certainly yes :)

I don't know much about how conda behaves on various systems though unfortunately. I do know by default that it installs into a particular conda env, and the directory for binaries for an env is unlikely to be /usr/bin, but I don't know whether any Linux distributions' conda package have the base conda environment be that, nor do I know whether they make installing things into it not require root. It seems unlikely (especially non-root), but remotely possible.

pip on various distros, if you install it to the system python via e.g. sudo apt install python3-pip on some Debianish system, will indeed then have sudo pip install foo install its binaries in /usr/bin, but no one should run sudo pip (and probably one should mostly not use the python3-pip package).

Beyond that as I say I'm not sure what conda does on various distros but you could try it out in a container and see perhaps, or someone else may know.

[Julian]

FWIW /usr/bin is almost certainly already on your PATH by the way, so if it did install things in there, the PATH manipulation isn't necessary.