Re: [gentoo-user] Q: pp requires --uesr option t hat doesn't exist?

["Max Zettlmeißl" <max@zettlmeissl.de>]

$ pip install --user awscli
or $ pip2.7 install --user awscli works.

Merry Christmas.


On 24 December 2017 at 21:54, Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com> wrote:
>
> This should have been simple: Install AWS client command line tools.
> Catch: Installing it with AWS' example tells me to use the "--user"
> option, though not why, and supplying --user with or without an
> argument tells me there is no such switch.
>
> I'd prefer not maintaining this stuff as SU, rather set up a group
> with access to the necessary libarary areas in Python.
>
> $ pip install awscli
> ERROR: (Gentoo) Please run pip with the --user option to avoid breaking python-exec
>
> $ pip --user install awscli
>
> Usage:
>   pip <command> [options]
>
> no such option: --user
>
> $ pip --user=lembark install awscli
>
> Usage:
>   pip <command> [options]
>
> no such option: --user
>
> Examining the output from "pip --help" gives me lots of no "--user"
> in the output, which makes sense if there are no users. Using
> "--verbose" didn't tell me anything useful either.
>
> Say I want users in the "adm" group to maintain the Python libs,
> I'll need to ( find <someplace> | xargs chgrp adm; find <someplace>
> -type d | xargs chmod 02775; find <someplace> -type f | xargs
> chmod g+w ).
>
> Q: Whare are the python lib's stored?
>
> Python itself only tells me:
>
>     $ python -V
>     Python 3.4.5
>
> not the paths.
>
> Or, for that matter, does anyone know how to avoid the "--user"
> requirement using pip?
>
> thanks
>
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>