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

[Karol M. L. <kar...@gm...>]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 04:57:35PM -0600, Jim Parker wrote:
> 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:
> > "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! :-)

Noel is right. I also find this annoying, and what I do on Debian when manually
installing Python modules is to always put them in /usr/local, where I additionally
link site-packages to dist-packages in order to bypass this irritating behavior.

You can do this by adding the --prefix option, like so:
python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local

Note that you need to make the symbolic link from /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages
to /usr/local/lib/python2.x/dist-packages before this.

- Karol

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written by Karol Langner
Sat Mar 26 16:22:36 CET 2011