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

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Wow, I'm surprised such a problem came up :)

Thanks Noel for working on the new release. Maybe this is a good time
to think about packaging cclib for Debian? I already make debs
for my own use, so it is a question of getting it into the repository.

- Karol

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:48:52PM -0600, Jim Parker wrote:
> 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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