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| author | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2024-03-29 22:05:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> | 2024-03-29 16:29:49 -0400 |
| commit | 27caa765ff33e1343546ea026f341f60d2fb05c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dc3d8e210f344e5558503494332427174db7c05 /docs | |
| parent | a63739d394dd77314270f5a46f79171a8c544e77 (diff) | |
| download | meson-27caa765ff33e1343546ea026f341f60d2fb05c0.tar.gz | |
Update Pip install documentation.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Quick-guide.md | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Quick-guide.md b/docs/markdown/Quick-guide.md index 534055aa7..14914567f 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Quick-guide.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Quick-guide.md @@ -79,19 +79,20 @@ $ meson setup builddir $ bash: /usr/bin/meson: No such file or directory ``` -Description: The default installation prefix for the python pip module -installation is not included in your shell environment PATH. The -default prefix for python pip installation modules is located under -``/usr/local``. +**Description**: The default installation prefix for the python pip module +installation might not be included in your shell environment `PATH`. +The default install location varies depending on your OS, distro and +Python version. -**Resolution: -This issue can be resolved by altering the default shell environment -PATH to include ``/usr/local/bin``. ** +**Resolution**: This issue can be resolved by altering the default shell +environment `PATH` to include the path where Pip installed the +binaries. This can be, e.g. ``/usr/local/bin`` or +`/home/<username>/.local/bin`. -*Note: There are other ways of fixing this issue such as using +**Note**: There are other ways of fixing this issue such as using symlinks or copying the binaries to a default path and these methods are not recommended or supported as they may break package management - interoperability.* + interoperability. Compiling a Meson project |