I wondered if someone here could help with the error PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/evdev-1.0.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO'.
I get the above error whenever I run youtube-dl. I'm not a heavy user of the application so I am not sure how long I have had this problem with my system. BTW, I get a similar error if I uninstall python-3 and rebuild youtube-dl. Here is output from the terminal: youtube-dl Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 6, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3088, in <module> @_call_aside File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3072, in _call_aside f(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3101, in _initialize_master_working_set working_set = WorkingSet._build_master() File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 565, in _build_master ws = cls() File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 558, in __init__ self.add_entry(entry) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 614, in add_entry for dist in find_distributions(entry, True): File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1964, in find_on_path for dist in factory(fullpath): File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2034, in distributions_from_metadata root, entry, metadata, precedence=DEVELOP_DIST, File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2473, in from_location py_version=py_version, platform=platform, **kw File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2835, in _reload_version md_version = _version_from_file(self._get_metadata(self.PKG_INFO)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2437, in _version_from_file line = next(iter(version_lines), '') File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2627, in _get_metadata for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name): File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1408, in get_metadata_lines return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1404, in get_metadata value = self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info, name)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1516, in _get with open(path, 'rb') as stream: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/evdev-1.0.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO' _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/