# Python question - installing pynitrokey

**URL:** <https://support.nitrokey.com/t/python-question-installing-pynitrokey/7745>\
**Category:** Nitrokeys\
**Created:** [September 29, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://support.nitrokey.com/t/python-question-installing-pynitrokey/7745 "2026-09-29T18:02:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![T.L.7Gadi](https://support.nitrokey.com/user_avatar/support.nitrokey.com/t.l.7gadi/32/1436_2.png) [@T.L.7Gadi](https://support.nitrokey.com/u/T.L.7Gadi)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://support.nitrokey.com/t/python-question-installing-pynitrokey/7745/1 "2026-09-29T18:02:20Z")

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Hello,

During the installation of `pynitrokey` with `pipx` there are severall libraries installed too.

My question is - how can I see their version and where are they stored?

For example `pyscard`.

When I use `pip` i got the `pip list` command. But with `pipx` I did not found such a command.

Strange enough, that some of the new installed libraries like `setuptools` are listed by `pip list` which I did not installed by hand.

I crawled a little bit my home directory but found nothing.

Everything I installed is without admin rights.

Thanky guys!

🙂

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**Author:** ![robin-nitrokey](https://support.nitrokey.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@robin-nitrokey](https://support.nitrokey.com/u/robin-nitrokey)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://support.nitrokey.com/t/python-question-installing-pynitrokey/7745/2 "2026-09-29T21:09:22Z")

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You should be able to list all packages in pynitrokey’s virtual environment with `pipx runpip pynitrokey list`.

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**Author:** ![T.L.7Gadi](https://support.nitrokey.com/user_avatar/support.nitrokey.com/t.l.7gadi/32/1436_2.png) [@T.L.7Gadi](https://support.nitrokey.com/u/T.L.7Gadi)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://support.nitrokey.com/t/python-question-installing-pynitrokey/7745/3 "2026-09-29T23:18:32Z")

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Ah cool I didn’t know this combination of commands.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![T.L.7Gadi](https://support.nitrokey.com/user_avatar/support.nitrokey.com/t.l.7gadi/32/1436_2.png) [@T.L.7Gadi](https://support.nitrokey.com/u/T.L.7Gadi)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 11:25pm UTC](https://support.nitrokey.com/t/python-question-installing-pynitrokey/7745/4 "2026-09-29T23:25:18Z")

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By the way … If I would install the libraries needed for pipx again with `pip` or `pipx` for me like `pyscard`, would there be a chance that there will be a confusion for `pynitrokey`?

Regards

🙂

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**Author:** ![robin-nitrokey](https://support.nitrokey.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@robin-nitrokey](https://support.nitrokey.com/u/robin-nitrokey)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 7:36am UTC](https://support.nitrokey.com/t/python-question-installing-pynitrokey/7745/5 "2026-09-30T07:36:13Z")

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No. pipx isolates the installed programs into separate virtual environments. That’s why we recommend it over installing with pip directly.