Unable to pip3 install in virtual env

Fraser Clark

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May 10, 2021, 10:02:48 AM5/10/21

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Hi,

I have a fresh install of netbox on centos 7 and when I run the following commands:

source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate
pip3 install django-auth-ldap

I get the following error:

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/netbox-2.11.3/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyasn1'
Check the permissions.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Fraser

Jeremy Stretch

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May 10, 2021, 10:21:13 AM5/10/21

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The user as which you're executing "pip3 install" doesn't have permission to write to the virtual environment directory on disk. It's likely owned by root, and you need to either run pip as root or re-assign ownership of the path to the non-root user.

Jeremy Stretch

Distinguished Engineer, NS1

Office of the CTO

website: ns1.com

email: jstretch@ns1.com

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Fraser Clark

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May 10, 2021, 10:30:42 AM5/10/21

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Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the info.

Before activating the venv, I ran sudo -i then activated it. After that I could install it properly.

Cheers!

Fraser

Genius Dev

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May 11, 2021, 5:59:25 PM5/11/21

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Why not have his own virtualenv to run the pip3 install -r requirements ?

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Brian Candler

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May 12, 2021, 4:20:34 AM5/12/21

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> Why not have his own virtualenv to run the pip3 install -r requirements ?

Because then netbox wouldn't be able to use it: the objective was to install django-auth-ldap for netbox to use.

However there's a simpler and better way: create a file "local_requirements.txt" containing "django-auth-ldap". Then when you run netbox's ./upgrade.sh script, it will install this package in the venv it creates.

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