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:

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$ datasette plugins
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[]
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$ pipx inject datasette datasette-json-html
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  injected package datasette-json-html into venv datasette
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done! ✨ 🌟 ✨
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$ datasette plugins
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[
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    {
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        "name": "datasette-json-html",
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        "static": false,
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        "templates": false,
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        "version": "0.6"
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    }
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]

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:

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% datasette plugins
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[
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    {
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        "name": "datasette-vega",
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        "static": true,
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        "templates": false,
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        "version": "0.6"
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    }
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]
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$ pipx runpip datasette install -U datasette-vega
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Collecting datasette-vega
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Downloading datasette_vega-0.6.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
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    |████████████████████████████████| 1.8 MB 2.0 MB/s
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...
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Installing collected packages: datasette-vega
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Attempting uninstall: datasette-vega
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    Found existing installation: datasette-vega 0.6
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    Uninstalling datasette-vega-0.6:
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    Successfully uninstalled datasette-vega-0.6
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Successfully installed datasette-vega-0.6.2
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$ datasette plugins
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[
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    {
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        "name": "datasette-vega",
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        "static": true,
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        "templates": false,
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        "version": "0.6.2"
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    }
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]

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).