Re: [cclib-users] Installation of cclib 1.0 requires user intervention on Ubuntu 10.04

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

Hi Jim,

We're just using the standard installer for Python packages.

"sudo python setup.py install" was the correct way to install it.
site-packages is the correct location, not dist-packages. The latter
is a directly for packages from your distribution; the former for ones
you install yourself. You should add site-packages to PYTHONPATH in
your startup script (.bashrc or so), or complain to Ubuntu! :-)

You didn't say what the permissions problem was exactly, but I expect
that it results from use of "sudo su root", which looks like a very
dangerous command. Just the regular "sudo" will do the trick.

- Noel

On 27 February 2011 21:12, Jim Parker <jim...@gm...> wrote:
> This library looks to be very useful for me, and I'd like to thank the
> developers.
>
> I didn't see this in the archives and regret if it is a repeat of
> another post, but the release version of cclib-1.0 will not install
> correctly using the INSTALL notes on Ubuntu 10.04.  The user must
> recursively change the permissions of the installed files.  Ideally,
> the installer would do this and remove the group "staff" from the new
> install.
>
> My steps.
> 1.  Ensure python, python-dev, and numpy are installed per INSTALL directions
> 2.  as user,
> $> python setup.py build
> 3.  change to root, and install
> $> sudo su root
> $> python setup.py install
> Note: giving the command
> $> sudo python setup.py install
> will install to /usr/local/lib/pythonx.x/site-packages rather than
> /usr/local/lib/pythonx.x/dist-packages.  The difference is that
> dist-packages is loaded into PYTHONPATH by default in Ubuntu 10.04,
> site-packages is not.
>
> --Additional steps required beyond INSTALL directions.
> 4. Fix permissions
> $> cd /usr/local/lib/pythonx.x/
> $> sudo chmod --recursive 755 *  (not best, but if you want you can
> change the *.py files to 644)
> 5. Remove "staff" group
> $> sudo chgrp --recursive root *
>
> HTH some other new user.
>
> Cheers,
> --Jim
>
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