Problem finding my folder via terminal

[Tamara Berger]

Hi Cameron,

Thanks for the help. I was just following the coding in the workbook
when I inserted sudo. What you said about it makes a lot of sense.

Again, thanks for all your help.

Tamara
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:49 PM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>
> On 09Jun2018 10:48, Tamara Berger <brgrt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >I want to read your last two emails in the evening when I have more time to
> >digest the information, but I have a quick question now. I made the correction
> >you suggested to mymodule and went on to create a source distribution file.
> >Then I got stuck again when trying to install my module into site-packages. I
> >think I got a permission error. How do I fix this? Here is the coding from the
> >shell:
> >
> >Last login: Sat Jun  9 13:16:15 on ttys000
> >192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules/dict
> >-bash: cd: Desktop/mymodules/dict: No such file or directory
>
> I think this should be "dist", not "dict".
>
> >192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules/dist
>
> Ah, yes. Ok then.
>
> >192:dist TamaraB$ sudo python3 -m pop install vsearch-1.0.tar.gz
> >Password:
> >
> >There is a symbol of a key after the word "Password."
>
> There are a few issue here.
>
> First, it should be "pip", not "pop".
>
> Second, this is using the "sudo" command to run "python3 -m pip install
> vsearch-1.0.tar.gz" as root, the system administrator account. "sudo" is asking
> you for your password before proceeding.
>
> Might I suggest that you don't do this step?
>
> The reason here is that it will install your "vsearch" module into the _system_
> site-packages area. That area is under the control of the OS vendor (Apple in
> this case) and they may legitimately put something else of the same name there,
> or have already done so. In the former case they're land on your module and in
> the latter case you will be destroying the vendor supplied module.
>
> As a rule of thumb it is best to avoid putting stuff in the vendor controlled
> places - it leads to maintenance problems and can lead to unexpected behaviour.
>
> Instead, use pip's "--user" option, thus:
>
>   python3 -m pip install --user vsearch-1.0.tar.gz
>
> Note: there is _no_ "sudo" command there. This command runs as you, not root,
> and installs in your home directory in an area for user supplied packages.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>