Comment 5 for bug 1784132

Thanks for investigating. Some suggestions:

Any enhancements to the script must work seamlessly on all currently supported platforms, i.e. Debian family, openSUSE, Fedora. The goal is for the script to seamlessly install required system packages and then install packages into a venv.

The install.py script is more sophisticated than it might first appear. It's truly vital to understand how every part of it works before trying to make changes to it. For instance the function restart_script() is core to how the script functions, and is called under a few different circumstances.