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

[Jim P. <jim...@gm...>]

Noel,
  The permissions problem I'm having is that all files are installed
with 750 + setuid bit (or in symbols: rwxr-s--- ).  This occurs when I
use
$> sudo python setup.py install
or
$> sudo su root
#> python setup.py install

Thus when I run as a user and attempt to import cclib, the file isn't found.

I agree the sudo su root is unusual, but doing it that way, the
installer then placed all documents in the dist-packages directory
rather than splitting some into site-packages which is not a default
path.  Not a big issue as one can just add it as you mention to
.bashrc or other startup script.

Cheers,
--Jim

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Noel O'Boyle <bao...@gm...> wrote:
> 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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