[Bug 1236673] Re: Gives unfriendly error message when try to install without appropriate permissions

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** Changed in: click (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  Gives unfriendly error message when try to install without appropriate
  permissions

Status in “click” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Click gives an unfriendly error message when trying to install without
  appropriate permissions

  $ click install com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.euchre_0.4_all.click 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/click", line 83, in <module>
      sys.exit(main())
    File "/usr/bin/click", line 79, in main
      return mod.run(args)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/commands/install.py", line 51, in run
      package_path, user=options.user, all_users=options.all_users)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/install.py", line 279, in install
      self._check_write_permissions(self.db.overlay)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/install.py", line 257, in _check_write_permissions
      "No permission to write to %s as clickpkg user" % path)
  click.install.ClickInstallerPermissionDenied: No permission to write to /opt/click.ubuntu.com as clickpkg user

  Works when running as root:

  bob at alchemy:~/bzr/euchre/click$ sudo click install com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.euchre_0.4_all.click 
  Selecting previously unselected package com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.euchre.
  (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.euchre (from com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.euchre_0.4_all.click) ...
  Setting up com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.euchre (0.4) .

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: click 0.4.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: e440e09ef58a53bccc45087674ba6b8e
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Tue Oct  8 15:56:53 2013
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/click
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-04-01 (921 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/click install com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.euchre_0.4_all.click
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/click', 'install', 'com.ubuntu.developer.robert-ancell.euchre_0.4_all.click']
  SourcePackage: click
  Title: click crashed with click.install.ClickInstallerPermissionDenied in _check_write_permissions(): No permission to write to /opt/click.ubuntu.com as clickpkg user
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2011-07-05 (825 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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