dependency management - Automatically install pip packages' OS dependencies

Question

I am installing lots of pip packages on a debootstrap'd Debian which is understandably quite bare bones and lacks a ton of packages that you'd usually expect on a regular installation. Naturally, pip installations are failing because the OS doesn't have the libraries they depend on.

Instead of individually digging for dependencies I need to install, is there a way to let pip resolve apt dependencies?

Answer 1

No. pip is a portable tool designed to be run on many operating systems. But on every operating system pip works with just Python packages and doesn't touch system libraries. If you install Python packages with apt or any other distribution-specific package manager it handles all dependencies. When you add pip to the toolbox — you are on your own.