[CentOS] Semi-OT: install python package in userspace

Richard Grainger
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 08:43:21 -0000

I created the epypel (Extra Extra Python Packages for Enterprise
Linux) yum repo for exactly this reason:
https://harbottle.gitlab.io/epypel/

There are a bunch of additional Python 2 and Python 3 packages there
and if you want any added, please put in a request here:
https://gitlab.com/harbottle/epypel/issues/new

The repo does not upgrade any packages in base or EPEL, so should be
safe to use on most CentOS 7 systems.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 5:25 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
wrote:
> CentOS 7 box. As there's no package in any of the repos, we're
trying to
> install scikit-learn in the user's space. It refuses. My late try was,
> after d/l a .whl from last year, hoping that would work with the numpy
> package in the regular repos, I did a pip install --user scikit-learn...,
> and it still seems to want to write to system space: OSError: [Errno 13]
> Permission denied:
> '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/numpy-1.7.1.dist-info
>
> Anyone got any pointers?
>
>        mark