Question #662391 on Graphite changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/662391
Piotr Popieluch posted a new comment: I really can't recommend installing with pip (without virtualenv). The issue is that pip installs libraries in the same paths as yum/dnf. There is no support for installing multiple versions of a library at the same time (neither in yum or pip), which means pip can update installed system libraries. Obviously this can make a mess of your system Python and mess up your rpmdb (other versions are installed than yum thinks). Many system tools on Fedora/RHEL are Python based, for example yum/dnf itself. Using pip to install libraries can potentially break your system. Also when you run a "yum update/install someotherpythonapp" later, this can break you Graphite installation as yum might downgrade your Python libraries. There have been some attempts to split into a system python and a user python in separate directories, a bit comparable to how Perl does this with system_perl, site_pers, user_perl. But afaik these attempts have all failed (don't know the specifics). I'm a Fedora/RHEL guy, no clue how other distros handle this but I guess they also use the Ostrich algorithm :) Anyway, if you want to run latest Graphite on RHEL based systems I would recommend to install it in virtualenv or Docker. This installs it completely isolated so it cannot mess up your system. -- You received this question notification because your team graphite-dev is an answer contact for Graphite. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev Post to : graphite-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
