[Avocado-devel] What is a right way to install avocado?

[Andrei Stepanov]

Hello.

We are currently experiencing some issues with avocado / avocado-vt.

Our automation can be described in next steps:

0. Install RHEL 6/7.
1. Clone "master" branches for avocado/avocado-vt from github.
2. In avocado dir:

make requirements
python setup.py install

3. In avocado-vt dir:
make link
pip install sphinx
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

4. Run tests.

Above commands are run from root account.
We cannot use this approach any more.
It doesn't work with RHEL7.3.

I have opened a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417613
Than I had discussion with Tomas Orsava.

The problem is, running pip as root in Fedora/EPEL is not supported and
will break your system.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe

My question is: what is official way to install avocado/avocado-vt?

Invoking pip commands from root account is a bad approach.

Is there a safe way to install avocado & avocado-vt?
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