Yeah, updating pip is good, but I don't think necessary on Ubuntu. Adam
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:40 PM Pat Lurcock <[email protected]> wrote: > Evening all, > > I have started installing the dependencies as per the script on the git > hub, one step at a time. > The first few went OK. When running the line: > $sudo apt-get install python-pip -y > I got a couple of messages: > The directory '/home/arches/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is > not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check > the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, > you may want sudo's -H flag. > and > The directory '/home/arches/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not > owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the > permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you > may want sudo's -H flag. > > I rewound a bit (I am using a virtual machine and taking regular > snapshots) and,as advised, replaced the line with > $sudo -H apt-get install python-pip -y > and this time did not get any warnings. > > The next step runs the line: > $pip install virtualenv==13.1.2 > which works OK but ends with a message: > You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 18.1 is available. > You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. > > I understand that Arches is written in a legacy version of python (2.7) > and would like to check that it is OK to use the latest version of pip or > should we stick with the old one that gets installed? I don't really > understand how it ties together, and whether versions of pip are tied to > versions of python. > > Thanks in advance, > Pat > > -- > -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, > send email to [email protected]. For more > information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Arches Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
