Using PHPoole CLI as non-root on Ubuntu

[tschach]

Hi,

I followed the installation instructions https://github.com/PHPoole/PHPoole#installation to install the PHPoole CLI application (version 2.3.1) on my Ubuntu 16.04. As a non-root user I was not able to mv phpoole.phar /usr/local/bin/phpoole since I do not have write permissions for /usr/local/bin.
I can of course sudo mv phpoole.phar /usr/local/bin/phpoole, but then I cannot run PHPoole as a non-root user, since it again requires write permissions to /usr/local/bin and throws this error:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Humbug\SelfUpdate\Exception\FilesystemException: The directory is not writeable: /usr/local/bin. in phar:///usr/local/bin/phpoole/vendor/padraic/phar-updater/src/Updater.php:462

As a workaround I moved it to ~/.local/bin and added it to PATH: PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH". Maybe this could be added to the Installation guidelines? I would be glad to provide a PR, also if there is a better solution to solve this issue.

Best
Tobias

[ArnaudLigny]

Hello @tschach, yes it's a known problem from The padraic/phar-updater package.

I think the best way to resolve this issue is to add your contribution to this PR: humbug/phar-updater#21.

Thank you! :-)

[tschach]

Thanks @Narno, will do.