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Cannot install on Ubuntu 16.04, on both python 2 and 3 #112
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This same error is happening with the Homebrew'ed version of Python on macOS: #36 |
I am experiencing the issue on ubuntu 18.04 |
Anything that involves installing packages to system python will require root permission, which is one of the main reasons to avoid installing system packages i.e. This is a common issue in python and the README should probably address it early on by either:
I usually prefer option 2, and from my usage this means:
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I believe |
I wouldn't say never, its a perfectly valid use case for multi-user, system package installs, particularly if the package vendors its dependencies like poetry |
The Poetry documentation will never recommend installing with Nonetheless, Poetry installation is still a pain point and is something that needs to be tackled before Poetry can reach version 1.0. I want the installer to make Poetry self-sufficient and self-updatable without hitting permissions issues. The only way to achieve that is to install it in the user directory. For instance, |
In which case should it use base directories as specified by freedesktop? |
The new installer's behavior fixes this by adopting the behavior that I hinted at here: #112 (comment) |
This issue has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. Please open a new issue for related bugs. |
I'm using the distro packages for Python and Pip:
I know that pip complains about it not being the latest version, but I think the installation should still work, right?
By complains I mean this:
Anyway:
and
both end up with this:
😢
(Edit:
pip3 install --user poetry
worked. I'll leave the issue here and you can close it if you want. I'd say that the default installation instructions should work.)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: