Test suite fails with permissions error on linux unless you are root

[mweisman]

Our qgis builds install the plugin at the system level rather than the user level. This means on OSes with actual security the unit tests will fail with a permissions issue when trying to write to the plugin directory unless you are root (bad idea to run desktop software as root!).

Is there a way to write the output to /tmp instead?

[ischneider]

I can look into it - might be easy, might not. In the mean time, what if you cd to /tmp and run qgis from there?

[mweisman]

Get a bit further I start in /tmp but still eventually get a permissions error writing to /usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/opengeo/test/test-output/xunit-report.xml

[ischneider]

Thanks @mweisman - you reminded me it's easy

[ischneider]

@mweisman have a gander

[mweisman]

Thanks. Working now as a regular user on CentOS.