I usually don’t install python packages globally, instead keeping one virtualenv per utility and linking from a directory in $PATH . For example, to install httpie I’d do
$ python3 -m venv ~/.virtualenvs/http
$ cd ~/.virtualenvs/http && source ./bin/activate
$ pip install --upgrade pip
Successfully installed pip-20.2.2
$ pip install httpie
Successfully installed httpie-2.2.0
This instance of httpie can be used by sourcing the venv
$ source ~/.virtualenvs/http/bin/activate
$ http --version
2.2.0
I usually also don’t like to source an env globally and wrap it in a script. I have ~/.opt/bin in $PATH and I’ll create ~/.opt/bin/http .
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
source ~/.virtualenvs/http/bin/activate
http "$@"
Now I can use it easily without sourcing.