Open boegel opened 10 years ago
I remember now that I had to do this on Juropa, which is OpenSUSE. You need a special file in your home directory:
ocaisa@jj28l05:~> more .pydistutils.cfg [install] prefix=
Without this you can't install python modules in user space, it always tries to go back to the system default.
On 18 March 2014 15:44, Kenneth Hoste notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:
@ocaisahttps://github.com/ocaisa, @pforaihttps://github.com/pforai: Can you provide the details of this problem that was reported during today's EasyBuild conf call?
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/issues/373.
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On SLES, the site package location is customised to /usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
with the file /usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/distutils.cfg
. And this file has the following stanzas in there:
[build_py]
optimize=0
[install]
prefix=/usr/local
optimize=0
Now the issue is that the prefix
specified in there is global (ie for every user) and easy_install and pip (distribute) generally will read this file and even if the appropriate options are used for installation (like pip install --user
) that global setting has higher priority and is still in effect.
As such users on SLES systems will not be able to install EB with pip or easy_install. Also installation of python packages with EB (which is using --prefix for calls to setup.py) will fail as normal system users don't have permissions in /usr/local.
We have the following configuration in $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg
[install]
prefix=
to solve this issue.
see also #475
@ocaisa, @pforai: Can you provide the details of this problem that was reported during today's EasyBuild conf call?