issue with dependency installation in install.sh

[00h-i-r-a00]

Hello,

I just tried to set up OpenWPM by running the install.sh script, but get this error:

Cannot uninstall 'psutil'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

The end result of which is that all the packages listed inside requirements.txtdo not get installed. and I have to do them all manually. It seems like this is a known issue in pip post version 10 (See this and this)

I am not sure if there is a better way to get around this, but removing the -U flag from line 57 in install.sh (sudo pip install -U -r requirements.txt) seems to fix the issue. That way pip doesn't have to uninstall the older version (which it seems to have a problem with) and updating it with the newer version (thats my guess though I am not entirely sure why pip doesn't try to remove the older versions when not using the update flag).

This is technically not an issue but I thought you guys might want to know about this bug.

[00h-i-r-a00]

Actually removing the -U flag seems to skip installing the psutil package altogether, and despite OpenWPM running, it may cause problems in the future, so still figuring it out.

[englehardt]

Does b8f23c9 fix the issue? I've switched to installing a pip package locally in the current user's home directory (~/.local/bin/), rather than use the system pip. All of the dependencies are also installed there.

That should use pip v18, which doesn't appear to have this issue.

[englehardt]

Closing due to inactivity. Feel free to file a new issue if you still have the same problem.