venv-install helps you install python cli tools into a venv and still be able to comfortably use them from your terminal without constantly entering/exiting and otherwise managing the venvs.

Example using the homeassistant-cli package and its hass-cli binary:

venv-install homeassistant-cli hass-cli
hass-cli --version

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/markusressel/venv-install

Run the provided install.sh script from within it:

cd venv-install
./install.sh

This will copy the scripts to /usr/bin/ and make them executable.

venv-install <package-name> <command>

This will create a new venv for the package-command combo in ~/.venvs/ and install the required package inside of it. Additionally it creates a simple bash script in /home/<user>/.local/bin/<command> to make it easier to call this command later on.

From then on you can use:

<command> <arg1> <arg2>

just like you would inside the venv (or when installing it globally).

Internally this will use the /home/<user>/.venvs/<package>/bin/<command> binary provided by the python package you want to use.

If the package is updated you can easily update the venv by using

venv-update <package-name> <command>

which will essentially uninstall and reinstall your venv using venv-uninstall and venv-install.

venv-uninstall <package-name> <command>

This will remove the venv as well as the symlink to its binary.

• venvs