Linux installer is apt-centric

[Ashvith10]

It would be better if the build process wasn't hard coded only for apt - would be better to list down dependencies to install manually. Running this on other Linux distro is not easy.

[Ironlenny]

Yes, the package should just try to compile, and return an error with a list of dependencies if it cannot. It is security threat to have a non-system package changing the base system. I certainly don't want any npm package mucking around with my system.

Edit: And index.js is calling pip! Why is index.js doing any install? Anything that needs to be setup or installed outside of package should be left up to the user. It's just a basic packaging principle that the user knows her system best. Any time you're calling another package manager, especially when passing it -y, that should be instructions in the README instead.

If you really want to automate all of it, it should be in a shell script that is kept outside the package.

[erezsh]

Even on Ubuntu, if you don't have venv installed, it fails with a cryptic error, and only works after you apt install venv manually.