Testing tox with tox py
requires system-installed venv package
#3195
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Issue
It looks as if when using a Debian-supplied
python3
interpreter, you must have additional OS packages installed as well, these being at leastpython3-venv
. Cannot tox simply usevirtualenv
for this since, being a tox dependency, that is always available in the environment?Environment
Debian 12, system
python3
package supplying Python 3.11.2.Output of host python
pip list
(Debianpython3-pip
is not installed):Output of top-level tox environment
pip list
:I'm running the "top-level" tox in a virtual environment using
pae
from pactivate. This is essentially the same thing as using pipx, andpython3 ~/Downloads/pipx.pyz run tox -e py -- -k test_build_wheel_external
produces the same error.Output of running tox
Minimal example
On your Debian system, ensure
python3
is installed butpython3-venv
andpython3-pip
are not installed. In the tox source tree, usepae
or pipxas described above to run
tox -e py -- -k test_build_wheel_external`.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: