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

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

I just checked this myself, and I find the problem is even worse. I
can't even cd into the cclib-1.0 folder after untarring the .tar.gz,
due to permissions problems.

Thanks for letting us know. I badly need to make a new release...

- Noel

On 27 February 2011 22:57, Jim Parker <jim...@gm...> wrote:
> 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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