On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 14:33, Joachim Person <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I am not familiar with pip; after having run the command you suggested to
> install meson:
>
> $ pip3 install --user meson
> Collecting meson
>   Downloading
> https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/18/ba/0f3d6aef4ba484f59e4d3a00678c4322295976ec1db35c5929a8c1901099/meson-0.51.1.tar.gz
> (1.5MB)
>     100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.5MB 674kB/s
> Building wheels for collected packages: meson
>   Running setup.py bdist_wheel for meson ... done
>   Stored in directory:
> /home/joachim/.cache/pip/wheels/56/ce/4f/5ed3e8d6a5e2b826d3625bfe32c7205e4c67043817d955cc00
> Successfully built meson
> Installing collected packages: meson
> Successfully installed meson-0.51.1
>
>
>  it does not seem like my system finds meson-0.51.1 anyway, but still
> finds the old version. What do I need to do to have the newer version of
> pip run? My guess is that the executable meson-0.51.1 is located at
> ~/.local/bin/meson - but do I need to to anything more than to point out
> that executable in a symlink that I create under /usr/bin ?
>
>
Do **NOT** create symlinks under /usr/bin.

Instead, add $HOME/.local/bin to your $PATH.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.
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