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

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

You're welcome.  Thank you for making the program...

Cheers,
--Jim

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Noel O'Boyle <bao...@gm...> wrote:
> 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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