Hi all, So one sage-on-gentoo user opened the issue https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/issues/289 and I think it is relevant to anyone installing sage globally as root and someone for example tries to use octave. The message at the end of the backtrace is: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/sage/ext/octave' Basically sage (here in sage-on-gentoo but you would get a similar problem with a different path) tries to create /usr/share/sage/ext/octave/user This is triggered by pexpect which requires SAGE_EXTCODE/name/self.__script_subdirectory to exist and if not, create it (sage/interface/pexpect.py line 172 define this path). We get this path rather than "." because of line 518 in sage/interface/octave.py: octave = Octave(script_subdirectory='user')
What is the correct solution here? Ship sage with a folder octave/user or change the instance on line 518 to use "" for script_subdirectory? I am leaning on the later as it makes more sense for a simple instance of octave. François This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more information. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
