I finally escaped a rabbit hole 🕳 after a ~week-long struggle due to bug 385 and several python packaging bugs. Bug 385 broke the offline capability of Argos Translate sometime before Jan.2024. The OP’s advice worked incidentally at that time but no longer works. Apparently the release version that was in PyPi around mid-May 2024 still worked. Apparently the release cycle spans 5+ months. That window of time is far behind us now.

As of late Dec.2025 both the latest git version and the PyPi-indexed release still had the same bug.

To complicate matters, there is no version transparency (no --version cli option and pipx is blind to version numbers as well). Argos Translate is not packaged for Debian either, so no way to see or control versions with apt.

Does any distro include Argos Translate?

It’s a critical show-stopping bug for all who use Argos Translate offline. I wonder if there is an assumption that everyone’s PCs are all online anyway, so no need to treat the bug as a priority.

(#showerThoughts: might it be interesting if a live linux distro were designed to cater for air-gapped off-gridders that only has apps that work offline? And have a rich catalog of such apps?)