Package: pyenv
Version: 2.5.4-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I gave pyenv a try and noticed the following issue.
The pyenv(1) man page states, in part:
[...]
| 1. Append the following to $HOME/.bashrc
|
| if command -v pyenv 1>/dev/null 2>&1;
| eval "$(pyenv init - bash)"
| fi
[...]
However, this suggestion is wrong.
Firstoff, a "then" is missing after the semicolon (syntax error).
Secondly, if the PYENV_ROOT environment variable is not set to
a suitable user-writable directory, the following error is generated
each time a shell is started:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/share/pyenv/versions’: Permission denied
A better suggestion seems to be to append the following to $HOME/.bashrc
export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
if command -v pyenv 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
eval "$(pyenv init - bash)"
fi
However, this (after I started actually using pyenv) began to produce
the following error each time a shell is started:
pyenv: cannot rehash: /usr/share/pyenv/shims isn't writable
Other than this (do you need a separate bug report for it?), pyenv
seems to work, even though my $PATH is modified by adding three new
directories:
(a) $HOME/.pyenv/shims
(b) /usr/share/pyenv/shims
(c) /usr/share/pyenv/bin
I can understand the reason behind the addition of directory (a),
which is $(pyenv root)/shims , as documented in the man page.
I am not sure I understand why directory (c) is added, as this
directory does not exist.
I suspect that the addition of directory (b) is the cause of the
error I am seeing.
Please fix the man page and/or the manipulation of the $PATH by pyenv
(and/or forward my bug report upstream, as appropriate).
Thanks for your time and dedication!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.21-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages pyenv depends on:
ii build-essential 12.12
ii curl 8.13.0-1
ii expat 2.7.1-1
ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1700-1
ii libbz2-dev 1.0.8-6
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.67-1
ii liberror-perl 0.17030-1
ii libffi-dev 3.4.7-1
ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 2.089-1
ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.14-1
ii liblzma-dev 5.8.1-1
ii libmediawiki-api-perl 0.52-2
ii libncurses-dev 6.5+20250216-2
ii libreadline-dev 8.2-6
ii libsqlite3-dev 3.46.1-2
ii libssl-dev 3.5.0-1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b4
ii libwww-perl 6.78-1
ii libxml2-dev 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-0.4
ii libxmlsec1-dev 1.2.41-1+b1
ii llvm 1:19.0-63
ii make 4.4.1-2
ii pcre2-utils 10.45-1
ii python3 3.13.2-2
ii tk-dev 8.6.16
ii wget 1.25.0-2
ii xz-utils 5.8.1-1
ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1
pyenv recommends no packages.
Versions of packages pyenv suggests:
ii git 1:2.47.2-0.1
pn libsecret-1-dev <none>
pn python3-openssl <none>
ii python3-requests 2.32.3+dfsg-4
pn python3-tk-dbg <none>
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