@mcc @glyph oh hrm I misread Glyph's remark, thought it was `python3-pipx`, and I could *sorta* see Ubuntu doing something weird if they had an official pipx package.
+1 to sentiment that `python3 -m pdm` working in the first place is probably the core mystery, although it's hard to imagine `apt` would drop the ball *that* hard.
Sounds like you managed to get back to a consistent state, at least.