On 14Jun2022 05:57, stan <upai...@zoho.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:11:13 +1000
>Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
>> On 13Jun2022 15:07, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote:
>> >On 6/13/22 13:51, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> >>Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not
>> >>writeabl
>> >
>> >That just means that you should have done this with root privs.
>>
>> I certainly DID NOT want it done with root privileges. Gadzooks!
>
>Doesn't that require a --user in the command?  My understanding is that
>without the --user, it tries to install in system libraries,
>/usr/lib/python?.??

If you're not root, it can't do that. And I'm pretty sure the default 
has been a --user install for quite a while.

>This is really problematic because it confuses the package managers,
>and can end up with an unworkable system.

Indeed.

>Or does pip now default to using a ~/home/ directory as its install and
>update location?

I think so. Seems to work fine here.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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