Fresh install fails when selecting install python dependencies on MacOS

[Andras-Csanyi]

Hi, so the steps below resulting in a failed installation.

I tried to create a bug ticket, but I could not.

Steps:

• MacOS without lvim
• python 3.12 installed via brew
• install lvim using the script on the website

The result:

andrascsanyi@Andrass-MacBook-Pro  ~/DEV/spring_neovim  LV_BRANCH='release-1.4/neovim-0.9' bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/release-1.4/neovim-0.9/utils/installer/install.sh)

      88\                                                   88\
      88 |                                                  \__|
      88 |88\   88\ 888888$\   888888\   888888\ 88\    88\ 88\ 888888\8888\
      88 |88 |  88 |88  __88\  \____88\ 88  __88\\88\  88  |88 |88  _88  _88\
      88 |88 |  88 |88 |  88 | 888888$ |88 |  \__|\88\88  / 88 |88 / 88 / 88 |
      88 |88 |  88 |88 |  88 |88  __88 |88 |       \88$  /  88 |88 | 88 | 88 |
      88 |\888888  |88 |  88 |\888888$ |88 |        \$  /   88 |88 | 88 | 88 |
      \__| \______/ \__|  \__| \_______|\__|         \_/    \__|\__| \__| \__|

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Detecting platform for managing any additional neovim dependencies
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Would you like to install LunarVim's NodeJS/BunJS dependencies: neovim?
[y]es or [n]o (default: no) : y
Installing node modules with npm..
All NodeJS dependencies are successfully installed
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Would you like to install LunarVim's Python dependencies: pynvim?
[y]es or [n]o (default: no) : y
Verifying that pip is available..
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try brew install
    xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.

    If you wish to install a Python library that isn't in Homebrew,
    use a virtual environment:

    python3 -m venv path/to/venv
    source path/to/venv/bin/activate
    python3 -m pip install xyz

    If you wish to install a Python application that isn't in Homebrew,
    it may be easiest to use 'pipx install xyz', which will manage a
    virtual environment for you. You can install pipx with

    brew install pipx

    You may restore the old behavior of pip by passing
    the '--break-system-packages' flag to pip, or by adding
    'break-system-packages = true' to your pip.conf file. The latter
    will permanently disable this error.

    If you disable this error, we STRONGLY recommend that you additionally
    pass the '--user' flag to pip, or set 'user = true' in your pip.conf
    file. Failure to do this can result in a broken Homebrew installation.

    Read more about this behavior here: <https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/>

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

[Andras-Csanyi]

The problematic part is this: python3 -m ensurepip which results in the same output. I really don't have a clue what should be done to python...

[frolvanya]

Here's an output of this command on my machine (macOS Sonoma 14.5):

I'd recommend you to ignore python part for now, mostly all plugins are written in lua, so you don't have to install pynvim in most cases:

Would you like to install LunarVim's Python dependencies: pynvim?
[y]es or [n]o (default: no) : n