pip install as non-root on Fedora

[Ian Pilcher]

Is it possible to get $SUBJECT working?  I need to install 'grip' from
https://github.com/joeyespo/grip, and trying to do so as a normal user
isn't working (permission denied errors trying to write to
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages).

[Todd Zullinger]

Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Is it possible to get $SUBJECT working?  I need to install 'grip' from
> https://github.com/joeyespo/grip, and trying to do so as a normal user
> isn't working (permission denied errors trying to write to
> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages).

I believe you need to add the --user option.  That may
become the default at some point, but it looks like it isn't
yet for pip (I didn't check if pip3 defaults to --user).

This works for me: pip install --user grip

[stan]

On Wed, 2 May 2018 09:48:36 -0400
Todd Zullinger  wrote:
> Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > Is it possible to get $SUBJECT working?  I need to install 'grip'
> > from https://github.com/joeyespo/grip, and trying to do so as a
> > normal user isn't working (permission denied errors trying to write
> > to /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages).
>
> I believe you need to add the --user option.  That may
> become the default at some point, but it looks like it isn't
> yet for pip (I didn't check if pip3 defaults to --user).
>
> This works for me: pip install --user grip

And if you want to decide where pip will install to with the --user
option, put something like this in your .bashrc

PYTHONUSERBASE=/home/[your user]/src/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
export PYTHONUSERBASE