[BUG] Error importing meerkat without write access to /tmp

[Siyi Tang]

I installed the latest version of meerkat v0.2.1 using pip install meerkat-ml.

I got the following permission denied error when import meerkat in python. Because by default it creates a directory under /tmp but I have no write access to /tmp.

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/home/siyitang/anaconda3/envs/s3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/meerkat/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
  initialize_logging()
 File "/home/siyitang/anaconda3/envs/s3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/meerkat/logging/utils.py", line 26, in initialize_logging
  os.makedirs(log_path, exist_ok=True)
 File "/home/siyitang/anaconda3/envs/s3/lib/python3.9/os.py", line 215, in makedirs
  makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
 File "/home/siyitang/anaconda3/envs/s3/lib/python3.9/os.py", line 225, in makedirs
  mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/2021_10_29/17_06_57'

Temporary workaround is to set export TMPDIR=<some-dir>.

[Sabri Eyuboglu]

Just merged #179 into the dev branch, which should address this issue. To install from dev use

pip install "meerkat-ml @ git+https://github.com/robustness-gym/meerkat@dev"

Closing for now – feel free to reopen if the issue persists