Re: How do you install a .whl file globally in debian without breaking system packages?

On 10/07/2026 18:48, David Niklas wrote:
> Hello,
> I wanted to install a python pip wheel file globally without breaking my
> system packages. I tried searching online, but I cannot figure out how to
> do that.
>
> How do you install a .whl file globally in debian without breaking system
> packages?

If you only have the wheel file, probably not much you can do. But if 
you have the original python repository, you can use "stdeb" to create a 
debian package for the library, that way you can specify the dependencies.

Something like "sudo apt install debhelper dh-python python3-stdeb" then 
"python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb".

YMMV.

>
> Thanks!
>