How do people install stuff like this? So many tools these days use `npm install` or `pip install`. I certainly have npm and pip installed but they're sandboxed to specific projects using a tool like devbox, nix-devshell, docker or vagrant (in order of age). And they'll be wildly different versions. To be pedantic `pip` is available globally but it throws the sensible `error: externally-managed-environment`
I'm sure there's a way to give this tool it's own virtualenv or similar. But there are a lot of those things and I haven't done much Python for 20 years. Which tool should I use?
uv tool install
Installs into an automatic venv and then softlinks that executable (entry-points.console_scripts) into ~/.local/bin. Succeeds pipx or (IIRC) pipsi.
I tend to use things like pyenv or nvm; they keep python and node versions in environments local to your user, rather than the system.
`pip install x` then installs inside your pyenv and gives you a tool available in your shell
I used nvm a long time and was very happy to get rid of it and use `devbox` and similar tools instead.
The rule on my machine now is that everything has to be in a per-project sandbox, self-contained to ~/.local/bin or installed by the system package manager.
The question was about global tools, something nvm purposefully does not handle.
The `uv tool` answer by a sibling comment was great; it'd be nice to have something similar for npm.
tbh copy paste the github link and ask an agent for a nix package. you may have to do some prompt engineering but usually done in less than 10 ish mins