Beginners • Re: Library needs root access - messes up Thonny

Thanks - so it looks like I could have installed evdev using the --break-system-packages argument - would have saved a lot of time manually loading libraries. Will give it a go next time I change something major

It doesn't help with the neopixel library only working as root though and that's what is breaking my Thonny workflow.

Have now set up an alias for the command so leaving thonny and running the script in the terminal is reasonably painless.

Statistics: Posted by steev_jo — Sat Dec 20, 2025 2:42 pm

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