install-binaries.sh violates distro packaging guidelines

[flaviut]

• what are you trying to do?

Install scrimmage

• what is the problem and how can it be recreated?

sudo ./setup/install-binaries.sh -e 0 -p 3

Note that pip install ... is run. This is not OK because it breaks the package manager when packages are installed in /.

See Debian-DontBreakDebian (emph mine):

When you install software this way, you will not be able to remove it with apt-get or Synaptic. The APT packaging system can only remove software that was installed by the APT packaging system. Even worse, software installed this way can sometimes conflict with the software packaged for Debian.

Every distro has a similar disclaimer.

• what scrimmage commit are you on? You can see this with git rev-parse HEAD

a84c0f3

[SyllogismRXS]

Do you suggest we install debian packages of the python packages that we require (e.g., apt-get install python-<somepackage)? We could also update the instructions to have the user create a python virtual environment when installing scrimmage. I want to get rid of the install-binaries script eventually and just have the user install scrimmage-dependencies, which references the specific debian packages that are required.