Manually constructing the sites-packages path prevents installation into `~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages`

[Xyc0]

https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/blob/bcdd75a4608407217fd3f5947a8eb0afe2d7bc9e/src/scripts/binwalk#L17

[devttys0]

Can you provide more details? What is the output/errors you are getting? Installing to, and running from, a virtualenv seems to work fine for me.

[Xyc0]

I misspoke concerning virtualenv. I thought ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages and typed virtualenv. I think this problem will be fixed with https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/issues/336 but here is my output.

python3 setup.py install

creating ./binwalk/src/binwalk/core/version.py
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
creating build/lib/binwalk
copying src/binwalk/__init__.py -> build/lib/binwalk
creating build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/archives -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/console -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/linux -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/ecos -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/phones -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/network -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/ebml -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/images -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/encoding -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/firmware -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/code -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/crypto -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/bootloaders -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/hashing -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/binarch -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/bincast -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/sql -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/animation -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/vxworks -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/executables -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/binwalk -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/compressed -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/misc -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/filesystems -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/lzma -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
copying src/binwalk/magic/efi -> build/lib/binwalk/magic
creating build/lib/binwalk/config
copying src/binwalk/config/extract.conf -> build/lib/binwalk/config
creating build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/gzipvalid.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/unpfs.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/unjffs2.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/lzmamod.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/tar.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/zlibvalid.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/zlibextract.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/hilink.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/gzipextract.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/arcadyan.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/dlromfsextract.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/ubivalid.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/jffs2valid.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/cpio.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/lzmavalid.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/lzmaextract.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
copying src/binwalk/plugins/ziphelper.py -> build/lib/binwalk/plugins
creating build/lib/binwalk/modules
copying src/binwalk/modules/__init__.py -> build/lib/binwalk/modules
copying src/binwalk/modules/hexdiff.py -> build/lib/binwalk/modules
copying src/binwalk/modules/disasm.py -> build/lib/binwalk/modules
copying src/binwalk/modules/extractor.py -> build/lib/binwalk/modules
copying src/binwalk/modules/entropy.py -> build/lib/binwalk/modules
copying src/binwalk/modules/general.py -> build/lib/binwalk/modules
copying src/binwalk/modules/compression.py -> build/lib/binwalk/modules
copying src/binwalk/modules/signature.py -> build/lib/binwalk/modules
creating build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/__init__.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/display.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/compat.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/settings.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/common.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/exceptions.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/statuserver.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/version.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/idb.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/module.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/plugin.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
copying src/binwalk/core/magic.py -> build/lib/binwalk/core
running build_scripts
creating build/scripts-3.6
copying and adjusting src/scripts/binwalk -> build/scripts-3.6
changing mode of build/scripts-3.6/binwalk from 644 to 755
running install_lib
creating /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/binwalk
error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/binwalk': Permission denied

[E3V3A]

Although it's true that the setup.py + setup.cfg need some serious TLC to make use of the recomemnded setuptools and rid the deprecated (?) distutils, it does seem that this is not an issue with binwalk, but rather that you need to use sudo pip install binwalk.

And if you need local, you need to add the --user pip flag.