Installing and upgrading Datasette plugins with pipx

If you installed datasette using pipx install datasette you can install additional plugins with pipx inject like so:

$ datasette plugins
[]

$ pipx inject datasette datasette-json-html
  injected package datasette-json-html into venv datasette
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

$ datasette plugins
[
    {
        "name": "datasette-json-html",
        "static": false,
        "templates": false,
        "version": "0.6"
    }
]

Thanks Matthew Somerville.

I then had to figure out how to upgrade them. Thanks to https://github.com/pipxproject/pipx/issues/79 I figured out the following recipe using pipx runpip datasette install -U name-of-plugin:

% datasette plugins
[
    {
        "name": "datasette-vega",
        "static": true,
        "templates": false,
        "version": "0.6"
    }
]

$ pipx runpip datasette install -U datasette-vega
Collecting datasette-vega
Downloading datasette_vega-0.6.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
    |████████████████████████████████| 1.8 MB 2.0 MB/s
...
Installing collected packages: datasette-vega
Attempting uninstall: datasette-vega
    Found existing installation: datasette-vega 0.6
    Uninstalling datasette-vega-0.6:
    Successfully uninstalled datasette-vega-0.6
Successfully installed datasette-vega-0.6.2

$ datasette plugins
[
    {
        "name": "datasette-vega",
        "static": true,
        "templates": false,
        "version": "0.6.2"
    }
]

I added all of this to the Datasette docs here: https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/installation.html#using-pipx (see https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/756).

Created 2020-05-04T12:14:25-07:00, updated 2020-12-29T13:55:23-08:00 · History · Edit

Installing and upgrading Datasette plugins with pipx

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