Python 3.12 on the ubuntu-24.04 image (which is also slowly becoming ubuntu-latest) is using an "Externally Managed" instance of Python - either it was installed via a package manager (apt?) or it is ...

A critical vulnerability was found in the Python standard library’s ipaddress API, which incorrectly handled octal strings. A remote attacker could exploit this issue to bypass certain access control ...

I want to install some python libraries for development. My problem is that some of the ones in the Ubuntu repository are kind of outdated. Is there any way to use easy_install or a distutils setup.py ...