Installation without admin rights

[mehrhardt]

I have been trying to install odlcuda without admin rights. I have changed the "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" folder to a folder where I do have write access. This approach worked well to install other software packages. However, odlcuda seems to ignore this path and tries to install it into the default path

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/

instead.

I tried two options how to change the installation path, all of which should work according to some forums, but none does here.

• cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages ../
• make DESTDIR=~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages pyinstall

Any ideas of what is going on here?

[adler-j]

The problem is likely this line which always tries to perform a SUDO style install. You can fix that by adding --user at the end of it, see more info here: https://docs.python.org/2/install/index.html

Can you see if that works?

[adler-j]

If that works for you I'll make a more long-term stable solution.

[mehrhardt]

Great, so changing the file to:

...
endforeach()

add_custom_command(TARGET ${INSTALL_LIB} COMMAND cd ${TARGET_PY} && ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} setup.py install --user)

add_dependencies(${INSTALL_LIB} ${PYTHON_LIBS})
...

did the trick. I haven't tested the code yet, but I can install it :)

[mehrhardt]

I am not sure if I had to but I did:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages ../

before

[mehrhardt]

Is this now implemented so that this issue can be closed, @adler-j ?