Hi AIX Expert,

I have previously installed xgboost successfully on one of our AIX servers (related to another thread: "Error during installing xgboost"  - https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/discussion/error-during-installing-xgboost). Now I just installed xgboost on another AIX server and it has issue: 1) in the installation log, it has some warning message "DEPRECATION: xgboost was installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method"; 2) when I tried to do 'import xgboost', I got some file permission error (see below for details). The only difference between the 2 servers is: the previous installed server has python 3.9.17 and the current one has python 3.9.18. Can you please help?

Thanks

Mi

Warning message is the installation log:

......

running install_scripts
  writing list of installed files to '/tmp/pip-record-w_ulk_0g/install-record.txt'
  Running setup.py install for xgboost ... done
  DEPRECATION: xgboost was installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because a wheel could not be built for it. A possible replacement is to fix the wheel build issue reported above. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8368
Successfully installed xgboost-1.7.5

Error message when run 'import xgboost':

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/xgboost/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from . import collective, dask, rabit
 ......

  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 621, in add_entry
    for dist in find_distributions(entry, True):
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2096, in find_on_path
    for dist in factory(fullpath):
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2161, in distributions_from_metadata
    yield Distribution.from_location(
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2609, in from_location
    return cls(
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3010, in _reload_version
    md_version = self._get_version()
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2791, in _get_version
    version = _version_from_file(lines)
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2575, in _version_from_file
    line = next(iter(version_lines), '')
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2786, in _get_metadata
    for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1441, in get_metadata_lines
    return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1431, in get_metadata
    value = self._get(path)
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1635, in _get
    with open(path, 'rb') as stream:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/xgboost-1.7.5-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO'

/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/xgboost-1.7.5-py3.9.egg-info: ls -lrt
total 72
-rw-------    1 root     system            1 Mar 30 2023  not-zip-safe
-rw-------    1 root     system         1323 Oct 13 15:15 PKG-INFO
-rw-------    1 root     system            1 Oct 13 15:15 dependency_links.txt
-rw-------    1 root     system          189 Oct 13 15:15 requires.txt
-rw-------    1 root     system           19 Oct 13 15:15 top_level.txt
-rw-------    1 root     system        14769 Oct 13 15:15 SOURCES.txt

What command is used for installation. As a good practice , do share the commands used.

In above output of file access permission, looks, only the root user is having the access for read/write. 

Normally, it should be like '-rw-r--r--'  so all users will have at least  read access.

Thanks

Ranjit