Installation requires user to be root (brombo/galgebra#36)

[eric-wieser]

@phlummox commented on Nov 28, 2017

I see that the installation instructions (in galgebra.pdf) says that galgebra needs to be installed by running “sudo python setgapth.py” (if on Linux or OS X). However, some users might not have root access (or might not want to install galgebra as root). For those users, it would be handy to be able to have an alternative to using sudo.

I'd propose a change to the setgapth.py script so they can do this:

if site.ENABLE_USER_SITE and isdir(site.getusersitepackages()):
    dist_pkgs = site.getusersitepackages()
else:
    dist_pkgs = site.getsitepackages()[0]

I've made this change in a forked copy of galgebra here - let me know if you'd like me to make a pull request that will allow this change to be merged in.

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[eric-wieser]

@utensil seems to have already labelled this as done, closing