pipx does not install

[dnwillia-work]

🔍 Before submitting the issue

• I have searched among the existing issues
• I am using a Python virtual environment

🐞 Description of the bug

I followed exactly the instructions here: https://templates.ansys.com/version/stable/getting_started/index.html#installing-pipx

It does not install properly:

(venv) D:\ANSYSDev\pyansys\pylivegx>python --version
Python 3.10.8
(venv) D:\ANSYSDev\pyansys\pylivegx>python -m pip install --user pipx
ERROR: Can not perform a '--user' install. User site-packages are not visible in this virtualenv.

📝 Steps to reproduce

• Create a virtual environment
• Run the documented command

💻 Which operating system are you using?

Windows

🐍 Which Python version are you using?

3.10

📦 Installed packages

This is after I manually installed ansys-templates and did not bother with the pipx bit

(venv) D:\ANSYSDev\pyansys\pylivegx>python -m pip freeze
ansys-templates==5.0.0
arrow==1.3.0
binaryornot==0.4.4
certifi==2024.12.14
chardet==5.2.0
charset-normalizer==3.4.1
click==8.1.8
colorama==0.4.6
cookiecutter==2.2.3
idna==3.10
importlib_metadata==8.6.1
isort==6.0.0
Jinja2==3.1.5
MarkupSafe==3.0.2
python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
python-slugify==8.0.4
PyYAML==6.0.2
requests==2.32.3
six==1.17.0
text-unidecode==1.3
types-python-dateutil==2.9.0.20241206
urllib3==2.3.0
zipp==3.21.0

[greschd]

What does Get-Command python print? It looks like you might already run in a virtual environment, whereas the pipx install expects to be on the global level.

Note: I know at least one way of getting into a weird half-activated-venv state: Launching VSCode from an activated venv with code ., and then opening a terminal in that.