Installation problem

Ron Guerin <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:00:30 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm trying to install getmail-5.16 on Debian 12.  I followed the 
instructions for using the AppImage since Debian no longer distributes 
Python2.

The build step completes without complaint, but the install step throws 
an error:

# python2 setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running install_lib
creating 
/tmp/.mount_pythonD2zssp/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/getmailcore
error: could not create 
'/tmp/.mount_pythonD2zssp/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/getmailcore': 
Read-only file system

As I can manually create this directory, the problem is something other 
than /tmp being a read-only filesystem.

I haven't been able to find any information about this in the list 
archives or in Google.  I suspect this is related to using the 
AppImage.  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.