Permission error when running pip install, and again when running collectstatic script

[vapecastle]

Hi all,

I've installed the latest Netbox and used workarounds to install the floorplan plugin, then restart services as per the plugin install guide.

In netbox I can't see the floorplan tab under my test location, which indicates that the plugin isn't loading correctly.

The plugin is however showing in netbox admin GUI as being installed, and the version is 0.3.6 which looks good.

I suspect I have set the user permissions up wrong, or one of the processes netbox uses isn't able to access this plugin, or my workarounds have caused issue.

Permission error during pip install:

(venv) azureuser@Netbox-NBL:/opt/netbox/netbox$ pip3 install netbox-floorplan-plugin
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable

^Workaround was to manually move the 2x folders that pip3 downloaded (netbox_floorplan and netbox_floorplan_plugin-0.3.6.dist-info) into /opt/netbox-3.7.4/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages

i.e:

sudo mv /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/netbox_floorplan /opt/netbox/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/
sudo mv /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/netbox_floorplan_plugin-0.3.6.dist-info /opt/netbox/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/

Permission error during collectstatic script:

azureuser@Netbox-NBL:/opt/netbox/netbox$ source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate
(venv) azureuser@Netbox-NBL:/opt/netbox/netbox$ python3 manage.py collectstatic

You have requested to collect static files at the destination
location as specified in your settings:

/opt/netbox-3.7.4/netbox/static

This will overwrite existing files!
Are you sure you want to do this?

Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes
Traceback (most recent call last):

[omitted]

mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/netbox-3.7.4/netbox/static/netbox_floorplan'

The workaround was to run the below command, which worked.

sudo /opt/netbox/venv/bin/python /opt/netbox/netbox/manage.py collectstatic

The output was that 5 files were migrated, and I checked and they were actually there in the static folder.

Then I restarted netbox as per the plugins documentation, but no success.

I'm quite new to virtual environments and also pip so the answer here is probably pretty basic. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Hamish

[markkuleinio]

(venv) azureuser@Netbox-NBL:/opt/netbox/netbox$ pip3 install netbox-floorplan-plugin

sudo /opt/netbox/venv/bin/pip install netbox-floorplan-plugin

(No need to separately activate the venv)

[markkuleinio]

But I don't have any experience of that specific plugin so I don't know how it should work in general

[Mylevsky]

sudo -s
cd /opt/netbox/netbox/
source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate
python3 manage.py migrate
sudo systemctl restart netbox

[vapecastle]

Thanks, this worked for me.