I can install and run xkalamine just fine as my regular user.
$ git clone https://github.com/qwerty-fr/kalamine
$ cd kalamine
$ poetry install
$ poetry run xkalamine
Usage: xkalamine [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
...
But then as root, the installed modules are not available.
# poetry run xkalamine
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
...
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/home/greg/src/kalamine/kalamine/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
from .layout import KeyboardLayout
File "/home/greg/src/kalamine/kalamine/layout.py", line 10, in <module>
import yaml
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml'
The only way I can get layouts installed properly is by installing the dependencies as root using poetry
# poetry install
# poetry run xkalamine
Usage: xkalamine [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
...
which is not ideal. Root permissions are only really needed in order to modify the system's keyboard layout files, right? Maybe it's better to produce a diff which the user can then apply by running patch(1) as root, or produce a complete symbols file which can be installed using cp(1) or whatever as root.
I can install and run xkalamine just fine as my regular user.
But then as root, the installed modules are not available.
The only way I can get layouts installed properly is by installing the dependencies as root using poetry
which is not ideal. Root permissions are only really needed in order to modify the system's keyboard layout files, right? Maybe it's better to produce a diff which the user can then apply by running
patch(1) as root, or produce a complete symbols file which can be installed usingcp(1) or whatever as root.