Install using pipx

[lamyergeier]

Pipx creates a venv and installs beats in it. Will this work with plugins? or is it not recommended to use pip?

Refer: [pypa/pipx: Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments](https://github.com/pypa/pipx)

pipx install beets

[DjSlash]

Will this work with plugins?

Yes it will.

or is it not recommended to use pip?

It's the recommended way to run the latest source version of beets.

[RollingStar]

Is anyone using Poetry? https://python-poetry.org/docs/

[DjSlash]

Hi! Please start a new topic for this.

[ktetzlaff]

Here's an example of installing beets and the 3rd-party plugin beets-extrafiles (from git) using pipx:

pipx install 'beets[lyrics,web]'
pipx inject beets 'git+https://github.com/Holzhaus/beets-extrafiles.git@master'

List the core plugins you plan to use as extras (the [...] list of the pipx install command) to get plugin dependencies installed automatically (see extras_require={...} in setup.py for available extras).

To also install beets from git, use:

pipx install 'beets[lyrics,web] @ git+https://github.com/beetbox/beets.git@master'
pipx inject beets 'git+https://github.com/Holzhaus/beets-extrafiles.git@master'