Hi Cameron, Thanks for the help. I was just following the coding in the workbook when I inserted sudo. What you said about it makes a lot of sense.
Again, thanks for all your help. Tamara On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:49 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > On 09Jun2018 10:48, Tamara Berger <brg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I want to read your last two emails in the evening when I have more time to > >digest the information, but I have a quick question now. I made the > >correction > >you suggested to mymodule and went on to create a source distribution file. > >Then I got stuck again when trying to install my module into site-packages. I > >think I got a permission error. How do I fix this? Here is the coding from > >the > >shell: > > > >Last login: Sat Jun 9 13:16:15 on ttys000 > >192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules/dict > >-bash: cd: Desktop/mymodules/dict: No such file or directory > > I think this should be "dist", not "dict". > > >192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules/dist > > Ah, yes. Ok then. > > >192:dist TamaraB$ sudo python3 -m pop install vsearch-1.0.tar.gz > >Password: > > > >There is a symbol of a key after the word "Password." > > There are a few issue here. > > First, it should be "pip", not "pop". > > Second, this is using the "sudo" command to run "python3 -m pip install > vsearch-1.0.tar.gz" as root, the system administrator account. "sudo" is > asking > you for your password before proceeding. > > Might I suggest that you don't do this step? > > The reason here is that it will install your "vsearch" module into the > _system_ > site-packages area. That area is under the control of the OS vendor (Apple in > this case) and they may legitimately put something else of the same name > there, > or have already done so. In the former case they're land on your module and in > the latter case you will be destroying the vendor supplied module. > > As a rule of thumb it is best to avoid putting stuff in the vendor controlled > places - it leads to maintenance problems and can lead to unexpected > behaviour. > > Instead, use pip's "--user" option, thus: > > python3 -m pip install --user vsearch-1.0.tar.gz > > Note: there is _no_ "sudo" command there. This command runs as you, not root, > and installs in your home directory in an area for user supplied packages. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
