如何从Github安装没有root访问权限的python模块？

Question

I've read several article but I've had no luck as my situation conflicts with one or more freedoms that others have. This is my situation.

• I've no access to root .
• I'm just a user with access to python. No sudo .
• python 2.xx is pre-installed
• pip is not pre-installed.
• apt-get requires root privileges.

My goal is to install a simple module called Guessit from Github for my foo.py project. The installation for it is given by pip so that option is ruled out. I tried to manually install as per https://github.com/guessit-io/guessit/blob/master/docs/sources.rst . I downloaded the zip file, extracted it and ran

python setup.py install

It gives me the following error

 Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 4, in <module> from setuptools import setup, find_packages ImportError: No module named setuptool 

So, at this point I reckoned I needed setuptools module and hence downloaded https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py and tried to install it as per https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools by running

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | python

Again, it was a failure with an error like this:

 Downloading https://pypi.io/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-24.0.0.zip Extracting in /tmp/tmplNW7fe Now working in /tmp/tmplNW7fe/setuptools-24.0.0 Installing Setuptools Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 21, in <module> exec(init_file.read(), command_ns) File "<string>", line 11, in <module> File "/tmp/tmplNW7fe/setuptools-24.0.0/setuptools/__init__.py", line 14, in <module> from setuptools.extension import Extension File "/tmp/tmplNW7fe/setuptools-24.0.0/setuptools/extension.py", line 11, in <module> from . import msvc File "/tmp/tmplNW7fe/setuptools-24.0.0/setuptools/msvc.py", line 244, in <module> class PlatformInfo: File "/tmp/tmplNW7fe/setuptools-24.0.0/setuptools/msvc.py", line 253, in PlatformInfo current_cpu = safe_env['processor_architecture'].lower() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line 23, in __getitem__ raise KeyError(key) KeyError: 'processor_architecture' Something went wrong during the installation. See the error message above. 

Now, I'm guessing there is a match problem with the architecture of that setup and on my machine.

At this point, I'm not even sure if what I'm doing is right anymore. For whatever its worth, this is my the computer achitecture using uname -a

 Linux sl04.cmi.ac.in 3.13.0-85-generic #129-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 17 20:50:41 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

There's a problem in setuptools 24.0.0 (released today). I assume it will be fixed soon. Meanwhile, downgrade to 23.1 and reinstall the desired package.

Answer 2

from your description it sounds like you could install setuptools in a user-local path to get over your first hurdle.

see: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#installation-instructions

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but really in a situation like the OP, you would bootstrap pip :

• download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
• run: $ python get-pip.py (this will take care of installing setuptools for you)

then:

• pip install virtualenv

then use an activated virtualenv as a place to install your module.

This would keep your module or other dependencies apart from system packages, and doesn't require special privleges.