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Asked: 2026-06-02T16:37:19+00:00

I am trying to install lldb in Linux to my home directory on my

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I am trying to install lldb in Linux to my home directory on my system (I do not have root access) and I have run into a problem with a step that was trying to create a subdirectory in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages

I found the line in the Makefile that sets this variable and it is:

PYTHON_DEST_DIR := $(DESTDIR)/$(call realpath,$(shell python -c 'import sys; print sys.exec_prefix')/lib/python$(shell python -c 'import sys; print sys.version[:3]')/site-packages)

So it’s not something that I can specify in the configure sciprt, but I can change the Makefile to cause the files to be copied to some location in my home directory. But I don’t really understand what site-packages are or how I would specify that python should look in some alternative location for these files. Is this something that is possible or are there any workarounds for what I want to do?

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  1. Editorial Team

    A possible solution that might help over all is to install virtualenv. It’s a python package that helps set up some of these more annoying path redirection issues as well as gives you access to use pip and easy_install to install directly into your home directory.

    That’s the long route.

    site-packages doesn’t really mean much except for a known directory where python will look. You can change you PYTHONPATH environment variable to include other directories when you try to import. I’m not sure how you’re installing, but a lot of times build processes allow you to specify a –prefix to tell the build and installation process where to actually output the files. I don’t know enough about your particular case to be able to tell if that applies.

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