Hi Brandon,<div><br></div><div>I am a bit puzzled by your answer and actually I don't understand why sudo is to be banned on MacOS as this is something I am doing routinely on Ubuntu (may be I should not :-) ). Can you explain that one or just point to some docs on that topic ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>If I do what you are suggesting (sudo chown -R $USER:staff /Library/Python) then other user on the system might have the same problem I do have ... On a laptop - assuming a single user - that might be fine even though it seems odd. At least I would expect the script to set back the ownership to the former owner i.e. root:wheel.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For me the best solution, assuming that sudo is not an option, might be to install the software under my $HOME directory but I am not sure this would be easy.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as irc is concerned don't be sorry - I am at GMT+5.5 so this will always be tricky :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for your help</div><div><br></div><div>Guillaume<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Brandon Holtsclaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@brandonholtsclaw.com" target="_blank">me@brandonholtsclaw.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Right, your gonna want to do just what it says there in this new message. Now you can either use Disk Utility from a Boot CD and Run "Repair Permissions", or you can give your self write access to this directory as well like you did the last one, as it should be writeable by your user account just as 3 others I'll list here as well incase they are wrong as well. Use the same command as last time ( and the same as what you would run on Ubuntu as well )<div>
<br></div><div>export USER=yourlogin</div><div>sudo chown -R $USER:staff /Library/Python</div><div><br></div><div>Above is the new directory it mentioned. Below are not needed by Juju specifically but are likely out of whack on your system as well if those were.</div>
<div><br></div><div>sudo chown -R $USER:staff /Library/Ruby</div><div>sudo chown -R $USER:staff /Library/Perl</div><div>sudo chown -R $USER:staff /Library/Cache</div><div><br clear="all">And them there is a 3rd option that is outlined in the paragraph it printed for you as well as a link that will likely explain what I'm about to below ( as well as tell you how to fix it like above or install to an alternate location like your home directory )</div>
<div><br></div><div>** Now note, the way these generally get messed up are by running "sudo pip install blah" or "sudo gem install blah" or "sudo easy_install blah" , it can be an easy mistake if your muscle memory is pre programed to do so for apt-get or dpkg on Ubuntu ( or rpm etc etc ) but its a big no no on OS X and the primary reason the "Repair Permissions" button in the Disk utility even exists. Python libs and Ruby gems etc are designed to be built and installed fully by your unprivileged user account, as is anything in /usr/local ( same on Linux too but I dont think its enforced or has the consequences it does on OS X ) thus brew unlike easy_install or pip or gem, will flat out tell you it refuses to run with a big red message if you by habit do "sudo brew install blah" to try and prevent further damage but this also makes you "Fix" any previous mishaps or they are only writeable by root after using the sudo once. **</div>
<div><br></div><div>Short of the long story, I'll add these 4 directories to the Forumla to catch other corner cases hopefully, and incude it with the next update to the package. But I wanted to make sure you understood the "Why" when I say "Its your system thats broke, and maybe in other places too" as I did in the last email VS just saying , "ok do this".<br>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps! Cheers.</div><div><div>-- </div><div>Brandon Holtsclaw<br>Web <a href="http://brandonholtsclaw.com" target="_blank">http://brandonholtsclaw.com</a><br>Voice/SMS Tel:816-974-6106<br>
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