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Daryl Spitzer
Asked: 2010-02-17 13:23:21 +0800 CST

Installing Nose into my home directory (without sudo)?

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Is it possible to install Nose (http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.1/) into a subdirectory of my home directory on a Linux machine? (I'm not on the sudoers list for that machine.) If so, how do I do that?

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    The answer is to use virtualenv.

    But I didn't mention that (because I'm not on the sudoers list), I also did a custom Python install. When I installed correctly following Crast's instructions in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2278028/how-do-i-work-around-this-problem-creating-a-virtualenv-environment-with-a-custom/2278059#2278059, I was able to install nose using that version of Python.

    Update: I didn't notice until now that when I actually run nosetests, I get:

    $ nosetests
bash: /home/dspitzer/apps/bin/nosetests: /usr/local/bin/python2.6: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

    I'll try reinstalling with the --root option as suggested in the other answer.

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  2. Also most setup.py scripts support a custom root directory setting. So you can use them like:

    python setup.py install --root <a subdirectory of your home directory>

    Having that subdirectory in PYTHONPATH, you shall be able to get access to modules that you installed there.

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