[Scons-users] Error with Scons SCons-4.4.0 installation on Centos7

[Arnab Tah]

Thanks a lot Mats for your response.
I'll try with the pip (python3) install as you suggested.

Regards,
Arnab

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 11:53 PM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>
> On 12/23/22 01:54, Arnab Tah wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am getting the following error with Scons installation on Centos 7.
> > Any help in this matter will be much appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Arnab
> >
> > [root at bmkqaclient143 SCons-4.4.0]# python setup.py install
>
> Not the recommended approach for installs.
>
> No longer have a CentOS 7 around, my memory was that's old enough that
> you have to do "python3" to get Python 3 - although your snip here seems
> to not confirm that:
>
> [root at bmkqaclient143 SCons-4.4.0]# python --version
> Python 3.6.8
>
>
> Anyway, you can install via pip (use python3 if you need to):
>
> python -m pip install --user scons
>
> Or you can create a virtualenv and install SCons in it, something like
> the following (this isn't the only set of steps possible, but should be
> an example):
>
> https://scons-cookbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#setting-up-a-python-virtualenv-for-scons
>
> If you absolutely must:
>
> sudo python -m pip install scons
>
> But it's usually bad idea to force-install something into a space that's
> managed by the distribution's package manager (rpm in this case)...
> that's why the earlier form with the --user argument: that won't try to
> push files into /usr/lib64/python3.6 that don't "belong to" rpm.
>
>