On 2014-10-17, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Adam Funk" <a24...@ducksburg.com> >> To: python-list@python.org >> Sent: Thursday, 16 October, 2014 9:29:46 PM >> Subject: Permissions on files installed by pip? >> >> I've been using the python-nltk package on Ubuntu, but I need ntlk >> 3.0 >> now. I used 'sudo aptitude purge python-nltk' to get rid of my >> existing installation, & followed instructions on the nltk website >> [1] >> starting at step 4 (since I already have python-pip & python-numpy >> packages installed). >> >> $ sudo pip install -U >> >> I couldn't get it to work, until I realized that the permissions & >> ownership on /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages were 'drwx--S--- >> root staff'. A 'chmod -R a+rX' on that directory seems to have fixed >> it. Is it normal for sudo pip install to set the permissions that >> way, or did I do something wrong? > > On debian wheezy: > > ls -al /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages > > drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 4.0K Jun 30 15:16 ./ > > I'm not sure pip is responsible for this anyway, so my money goes on "you did > something wrong" :)
Probably something to do with the way I have sudo set up then. Thanks. -- Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. --- Henry Miller -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
