Are root permissions needed in Linux? about tax-calculator HOT 3 CLOSED

@feenberg I haven't seen this before and it may be an issue with how you installed Anaconda. If so, this Stack Overflow thread may offer a solution.

Conda seems to have gotten increasingly flakey, with long wait times to resolve packages for an environment.

As an alternative, you might try pip install -U taxcalc, as we also release the package on PyPI.

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Nothing on the StackOerflow page seemed relevant - it is all about windows or if Anacaonda is owned by root.

I did try the pip method. The install seemed fine (there was one warning for issue 10151) but "tc --test" yielded the following error message:

bash-5.1$ tc --test
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/homes/nber/feenberg/.local/bin/tc", line 5, in <module>
    from taxcalc.cli.tc import cli_tc_main
  File "/homes/nber/feenberg/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/taxcalc/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from taxcalc.calculator import *
  File "/homes/nber/feenberg/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/taxcalc/calculator.py", line 13, in <module>
    import paramtools
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paramtools

It looks like paramtools may be part of Anaconda - do I need to have Anadconda installed?

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@feenberg ParamTools is also on PyPI, so can be installed with pip install paramtools

I've opened in an issue to make sure we require paramtools with taxcalc installed from PyPI.

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