Strange linux problem.

[Alejandro Castellanos]

Maybe I'm completely off base, but I'm having a rather weird problem.
I figured I'd finally give it a go and start using pyglet in kubuntu,
and so I did .

I downloaded the recent pyglet 1.1.4-rc1 and tried to install it just
as the readme says. Here's my Terminal output:

cd /home/alejandro/Desktop/inst/pyglet-1.1.4
alejandro@Magog:~$ cd /home/alejandro/Desktop/inst/pyglet-1.1.4
alejandro@Magog:~/Desktop/inst/pyglet-1.1.4$ python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running install_lib
creating /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyglet
error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
pyglet': Permission denied

I mean, WTF? I also tried it as super user but no dice. Why am I being
denied permission? I got window'd, damnit!

Any ideas?

[Tristam MacDonald]

Did you try manually mkdir'ing the relevant directory, and see if that causes an error? Vaguelly possible that your /usr/ is mounted read-only, I guess... 

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[Alejandro Castellanos]

I'll give it a try, maybe try it from somewhere else in the home
directory, or something, but I'm turtle slow.

Thanks for replying.

[pymike]

When I installed it I had to use sudo:

sudo python setup.py install
(And then enter the admin password when prompted.)

Ubuntu won't let you create/delete files in the root directories unless you authorize yourself.

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[Jonathan Hartley]

Me too - I always have to 'sudo' when I run python setup.py install on
anything.

[Matthew Stevens]

It gets installed into the system's python site-packages directory, so
you need super user permissions.

[Richard Jones]

Note that if you're running virtualenv you can do all this without sudo.


Richard

[Alejandro Castellanos]

Thank you guys (especially you pymike).

Bad thing is that I feel like a dumbass. Good thing is that I finally
got it running, Which is all good 'cause I wanted to try some things
with pyglet and some cython modules, which I can only get running
under linux.

Again, thanks a bunch.