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

[Jonathan Marquardt]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:39:23AM +0100, Clément Hermann wrote:
> "type python3" might tell you if you are maybe using an alternate
> python3 interpreter located in /usr/local when doing that. The shebang
> in onioncircuits explicitely uses /usr/bin/python3 which might be
> different that the one that is first in PATH.
> 
> I would recommend making sure any other, non-system python3 is
> self-enclosed (maybe in /opt) if needed. python-virtualenv might be a
> solution you want to have a look at: system python used for packages,
> and separated, local python for local code.

I'm using the normal python3 installation from the Debian repos, nothing 
special.

$ type python3
python3 is hashed (/usr/bin/python3)

> I'm going to close this bug, since it's not an issue on the package.
> 
> Thanks for the additional info, even if it's not a bug in the package
> this might be useful to other!

Well, at least I now have a workaround to get it running, so that's good 
enough for me.

Thank you for your time!