Issues with permissions and yay & git: when yay uses git, I get permission error. same with python pip

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Hi, installed manjaro linux wiht i3 a couple of days ago. I decided to use yay with the AUR packages, but I must have done something wrong. I can install:

yay -S intel-mkl

without problems. But if I want to install the lf filemanager:

yay -S lf

:: There are 3 providers available for lf:
:: Repository AUR
    1) lf 2) lf-bin 3) lf-git

Enter a number (default=1):
==> 1
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:1]  lf-27-1

:: (0/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: lf
 -> error fetching lf: Cloning into 'lf'...
fatal: Invalid path '/home/emil/.cache/yay/lf/.git': Permission denied
         context: exit status 128

This seems to be related to git. I tried looking at how file permissions work, my user seem to have ownership of the directories in .cache and yay.

This also happens when I try to use the python pip installer, I suspect it’s the same underlying issue:

 python -m ensurepip --default-pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ensurepip/__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
    sys.exit(ensurepip._main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 277, in _main
    return _bootstrap(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 177, in _bootstrap
    with open(filename, "wb") as fp:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/tmp0o78aygj/setuptools-58.1.0-py3-none-any.whl'

Interestingly, this did not happen when I installed manjaro on my other laptop two weeks ago. I think I used another guide for installing yay, I found both of them on the internet. I suspect it’s about the second guide using sudo a wrong place (or perhaps I inserted it by mistake)

Help much appreciated, tried googling somewhat extensively without succes.

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Why would you need a guide from who-knows-where from the internet for installing a package that is in manjaro’s repos?

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Oh god. so you mean I could just do:

sudo pacman -S yay

??
In that case, I think might just reinstall the OS again, start from clean slate.

4

Yup.

It should work just the same if you build it with github instructions though.

5

aight, Thanks. What to learn from this? Always find the most official source before rando blogposts of google :smiley:

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Exactly. First manjaro, then archwiki, then linux in general and everything else, and then blog posts. :stuck_out_tongue:
And btw, it takes you 2 seconds to search if some package is in official repos.

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