[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#981817: onioncircuits: Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/psutil-5.7.2.dist-info'

[Jonathan Marquardt]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 12:23:17PM +0100, Clément Hermann wrote:
> The error message reference stuff in /usr/local: this leads me to think
> some python libs where locally installed without using the package
> system. Can you check that please ? And maybe test in a vm for instance
> to check in a clean environment ?

I checked and you're right. This doesn't happen in a clean environment. I 
figured out what causes the issue. I have psutil installed using pip (pip3 
install psutil).

Is there a way to fix this? What even causes this? I need psutil to be 
installed for some other python programs.