Pythonpath Not Working For Sudo on Gnu/Linux (Works For Root)

PYTHONPATH not working for sudo on GNU/Linux (works for root)

The fix in my case was to remove Defaults !env_reset from sudoers.

But, I had to keep Defaults env_keep += "PYTHONPATH" in sudoers.

I've actually added Defaults env_reset (which resets environment variables), but it still works because of env_keep.

It seems that env_keep and !env_reset conflict with eachother, but that's just a guess.

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So, the whole process:

1. add export PYTHONPATH=/your/custom/path to ~/.bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc
2. add PYTHONPATH to Defaults env_keep += "ENV1 ENV2 ..." in sudoers file
3. remove Defaults !env_reset from sudoers file if present

ImportError: No module named pyaudio with sudo

I just used sudo su to gain root access and everything worked fine.

Permanently add a directory to PYTHONPATH?

You need to add your new directory to the environment variable PYTHONPATH, separated by a colon from previous contents thereof. In any form of Unix, you can do that in a startup script appropriate to whatever shell you're using (.profile or whatever, depending on your favorite shell) with a command which, again, depends on the shell in question; in Windows, you can do it through the system GUI for the purpose.

superuser.com may be a better place to ask further, i.e. for more details if you need specifics about how to enrich an environment variable in your chosen platform and shell, since it's not really a programming question per se.

Python 'keyboard' module working as non-root but not working in sudo (linux)

Try running the following command and see if it helps.

sudo python3 -m pip install keyboard

Unable to import a module that is definitely installed

In my case, it is permission problem. The package was somehow installed with root rw permission only, other user just cannot rw to it!

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