Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] installing a python package without elevated privileges

[Marcus Müller]

Personal two cents: On most modern linuxes, you shouldn't be installing
mako via pip, and much less even numpy (because that's a huge compile
including fortran interfaces).

I just go and remove pip from the list of preferred packagers on my
systems¹. Never ran into problems with that. Now, I've never had the
need to install a python package that wasn't there as a distro package
in the last months on my recent systems, and on my retro systems I
typically not use pybombs, but your needs seem to be different. But
that's the problem here: PyBOMBS has to make sume assumptions on how you
want to install packages, and these include that pip needs to run as
root. Now, it seems that your ~/.local/bin/pip doesn't have the file
priorities set to allow others (including root, as it seems) to execute
it. You could check with "stat /home/nae/.local/bin/pip" what the
"Access" rights are. Should be something like 0755 / -rwxr-xr-x; my
guess is the last r-x is missing.

Best regards,

Marcus

¹ I'm even in personal disagreement with the folks maintaining Pybombs
on whether pip should be allowed to install things globally at all if a
package could potentially also be installed via native methods. But
generally, Pybombs is an awesome tool, and so is pip.

On 21.03.2017 19:45, Naceur wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. However, I don't want to have anything done
> manually. 
> Maybe I need rephrasing my initial post: 
>
> It is not that I want PyBOMBS to to do a pip --user but I am more wondering
> why it is saying:
>
>> PyBOMBS.PackageManager - DEBUG - Using packager pip 
>> PyBOMBS.Packager.pip - DEBUG - Calling `/home/nae/.local/bin/pip install
>> pytun' 
>> PyBOMBS.monitor_process() - DEBUG - Running with elevated privileges. 
>> PyBOMBS._process_thread() - DEBUG - Executing command `['sudo', '-H',
>> '/home/nae/.local/bin/pip', 'install', 'pytun']' 
>> sudo: unable to execute /home/nae/.local/bin/pip: Permission denied 
>> PyBOMBS.monitor_process() - DEBUG - Thread signaled termination or
>> returned 
>> PyBOMBS.monitor_process() - DEBUG - Return value: 1 
> why is it going straight to elevated priviliges.
> I looked for a package that needs installation through pip and found mako
> and numpy. 
> I realized that when uhd was installed it needed mako as a prerequesite and
> it did install it without the elevation and error.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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