Re: Adding Python Modules

From: Austin Godber <no email>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:03:54 -0400

Hmmm, I know I was able to get root somehow in 0.91 or whatever the last
packaged release was. Maybe I just SSHed in as root and it had my key
setup or something.

Austin

On 03/14/2011 10:00 PM, Chris Diehl wrote:
> I should have mentioned that I tried 'sudo easy_install ...' and it
> prompted me for a password. Hitting return didn't do the trick...
>
> Once I am able to create a new custom AMI, shouldn't I be able to spin
> up a cluster of VMs all using the same image?
>
> Chris
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Austin Godber <godber_at_uberhip.com
> <mailto:godber_at_uberhip.com>> wrote:
>
> You should be able to use sudo to do things as the root user:
>
> sudo easy_install boto
>
> I am pretty sure that works.
>
> Though you should keep in mind that will only run it on the
> current node and /usr/local isn't share between nodes ... at least
> as far as I know of.
>
> Austin
>
>
> On 03/14/2011 08:55 PM, Chris Diehl wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just successfully fired up my first cluster in short order
>> which is brilliant!
>>
>> My first step was to try and install additional modules so that I
>> could save a custom AMI for future use.
>>
>> Doing an 'easy_install <packagename>' yielded:
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> error: can't create or remove files in install directory
>>
>> The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files
>> in the
>> installation directory:
>>
>> [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/test-easy-install-5265.write-test'
>>
>> The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir,
>> --prefix, or
>> the distutils default setting) was:
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
>>
>> Perhaps your account does not have write access to this
>> directory? If the
>> installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need
>> to sign in
>> as the administrator or "root" account. If you do not have
>> administrative
>> access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different
>> installation
>> directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH
>> environment
>> variable.
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> Does sgeadmin not have admin rights? Should I be able to install
>> software at will without permissions issues?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
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