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The installation tells the user to run pip with sudo:
If you are not installing in a virtualenv, run with sudo:
$ sudo pip install saws
This is will break package managers on some (if not most) distros, as it will install packages into the system's global site-packages. If a package manager now tries to install a package that already exists in site-packages, it will fail because the files already exist and are untracked by the package manager.
Instead, packages should be locally installed with pip install --user saws, which installs it into the user's personal site-packages, usually located in the home directory.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
The installation tells the user to run pip with sudo:
This is will break package managers on some (if not most) distros, as it will install packages into the system's global
site-packages
. If a package manager now tries to install a package that already exists insite-packages
, it will fail because the files already exist and are untracked by the package manager.Instead, packages should be locally installed with
pip install --user saws
, which installs it into the user's personalsite-packages
, usually located in the home directory.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: