Description of problem: wycliff:~# pip-python3 install ipdb Downloading/unpacking ipdb Downloading ipdb-0.8.zip Running setup.py egg_info for package ipdb Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): ipython>=0.10 in /usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages (from ipdb) Installing collected packages: ipdb Running setup.py install for ipdb Fixing build/lib/ipdb/__init__.py build/lib/ipdb/__main__.py Skipping implicit fixer: buffer Skipping implicit fixer: idioms Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma Fixing build/lib/ipdb/__init__.py build/lib/ipdb/__main__.py Skipping implicit fixer: buffer Skipping implicit fixer: idioms Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma Installing ipdb3 script to /usr/bin Successfully installed ipdb Cleaning up... wycliff:~# ls /usr/bin/ipdb3 /usr/bin/ipdb3 wycliff:~# ls /usr/local/bin/ipdb3 ls: cannot access /usr/local/bin/ipdb3: No such file or directory wycliff:~# ls -d /usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/ipd* /usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/ipdb /usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/ipdb-0.8-py3.3.egg-info wycliff:~# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python3-pip-1.1-3.el7.noarch How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: Everything is installed to directories directly under /usr/ (/usr/lib/python*, /usr/bin) etc. Expected results: To this directory only rpm should write, everything else should go to /usr/local
I think the current behavior is fine because /usr/local/... is not part of the default python path on Fedora (IIRC!). Also easy_install always installed to /usr/lib. pip has a command line flag to install to another location or you can resort to virtualenvs.
If python and python3 are not looking in /usr/local for packages, there is little point in having pip install there. As mentioned in c#1, virtualenvs or alternate locations on the command line are options *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 662034 ***