"/usr/local/man" pip permissions needed

[Adnn]

I am trying to install Conan (1.8.3 at the moment) from pip3 (18.0, also tested after upgrading to 18.1, on Python 3.7), on OS X (10.12, freshly installed VM). I issue the command:

pip3 install conan

It fails with the error:

Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/man'
Consider using the --user option or check the permissions.

/usr/local is owned by root, and has not man/ subfolder indeed.

And to make it a bit more surprising, if I issue the same install command a second time

    pip3 install conan

The installation complete successfully (I mean, no error displayed, and conan is available on the command line). And there are still no /usr/local/man folder after the successful installation.

Could that be a problem with Conan's pip recipe ?

[lasote]

We will try to find a fix because even being something "normal" it is not worth it to introduce such failures for a man that no one is reading.
You need to use --user or sudo to install it.

[jgsogo]

Here is an opened issue/pr to handle this issue with man. We hope it to be released soon 😕 tqdm/tqdm#629

[lasote]

It is tagged to 5.0, so I don't discard this even released with a Conan patch: https://pypi.org/project/tqdm-conan/

[lasote]

We will release 1.8.4 soon to fix this.

[casperdcl]

closed tqdm/tqdm#629 in tqdm/tqdm@f6448c1