"Install" issues - runs only as "root"
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plover |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
plover-2.2.0
debian-unstable
From the README file, installing on my debian-unstable system, with the suggested
sudo python setup.py install
will install plover in /usr/local/
drwxr-s--- 6 root staff 4096 Jan 15 20:48 plover
-rw-r----- 1 root staff 1021 Jan 15 20:48 plover-
and so on, for the installed files.
Did you really want plover to run only as "root"? Is this a permissions error in the install?
There is no mention of having to run "sudo plover" in the README file. Running simply "plover" will produce an error message,
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/
import plover.gui.main
ImportError: No module named plover.gui.main
which is not what the first-time user should see.
But then, maybe you don't want a non-root user mucking with the keyboard mapping? On the other hand, the keyboard is usually already dedicated to the current non-root user.
So, please update the README file, or set the proper install permissions to allow a non-root user to run plover.
Also, allowing for installation in a different directory would be polite. I prefer "/local/" instead of "/usr/local/". Some people might prefer to install in "/opt/". So, a command-line dialog, or an install-
Thanks. Very cool project!
James
| Joshua Harlan Lifton (joshua-harlan-lifton) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in plover: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Joshua Harlan Lifton (joshua-harlan-lifton) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in plover: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| james (james-nurealm) wrote | #3 |
Thanks for the bug report, James. I suspect I didn't run into this earlier due to a difference between Debian and Ubuntu (or perhaps our particular setups thereon) in the value of the umask during installation. I'll look into this further to determine how to allow Plover to run as a non-root user on systems with a more restrictive umask.