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by isostatic 2515 days ago
Here's a perfect example of the python community

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54831915/python-3-5-2-in...

> I want to run this on a production Server with ubuntu 16.04. My Sysadmin tells me that I shall not use pip or github repository, because of ... something wrong with using anything but apt ... he says.

Sysadmin is right.

First response?

> sudo apt-get install python-pip

Now there are ways to convert modules to debs (or rpms on redhat style machines) so they can be managed cleanly across an estate, but that's not the python way.