diff --git a/packages/direnv.sh b/packages/direnv.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/packages/pipx.sh b/packages/pipx.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..8380e26b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/pipx.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+command -v python3 > /dev/null || {
+    echo "python3 executable not found, exiting"
+    return 1
+}
+
+python3 -c "import sys; assert sys.version_info[0] >= 3 and sys.version_info[1] >= 7" || {
+    echo python3 --version
+    echo "python version too old, requires >=3.7"
+    return 1
+}
+
+USERSITE=$(python3 -c "import site; print(site._get_path(site._getuserbase()))")
+mkdir -p $USERSITE
+
+if [[ ! -e "$USERSITE/pipx" ]]
+then
+    python3 -m pip install --user pipx
+fi
diff --git a/packages/pyenv.sh b/packages/pyenv.sh
index bf94140f..5d794dcc 100755
--- a/packages/pyenv.sh
+++ b/packages/pyenv.sh
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ index_main() {
 }
 
 index_main
+echo "suggested install to build python:\
+    base-devel openssl zlib xz tk"
diff --git a/packages/python.txt b/packages/python.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 061741a1..00000000
--- a/packages/python.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-python
-python-pip
-python-pynvim
-python-virtualenv
-base-devel
-openssl
-zlib
-xz
-tk