Permission denied: '/root/.art'

[keode]

I installed art in a conda virtual environment via pip install adversarial-robustness-toolbox and the installation went through without error. I then tried to run the example get_started_scikit_learn.py, but I got the error

(art) ray@T480s:~/adversarial-robustness-toolbox$ python examples/get_started_scikit_learn.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ray/adversarial-robustness-toolbox/examples/get_started_scikit_learn.py", line 10, in
from art.attacks.evasion import FastGradientMethod
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/init.py", line 7, in
from art import attacks
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/attacks/init.py", line 8, in
from art.attacks import evasion
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/attacks/evasion/init.py", line 4, in
from art.attacks.evasion.adversarial_patch.adversarial_patch import AdversarialPatch
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/attacks/evasion/adversarial_patch/adversarial_patch.py", line 31, in
from art.attacks.evasion.adversarial_patch.adversarial_patch_numpy import AdversarialPatchNumpy
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/attacks/evasion/adversarial_patch/adversarial_patch_numpy.py", line 37, in
from art.estimators.estimator import BaseEstimator, NeuralNetworkMixin
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/estimators/init.py", line 4, in
from art.estimators.estimator import (
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/estimators/estimator.py", line 27, in
from art.config import ART_NUMPY_DTYPE
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/config.py", line 94, in
set_data_path(_config["ART_DATA_PATH"])
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/site-packages/art/config.py", line 47, in set_data_path
os.makedirs(expanded_path, exist_ok=True)
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/os.py", line 215, in makedirs
makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
File "/home/ray/anaconda3/envs/art/lib/python3.10/os.py", line 225, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/.art'

It seems that _config["ART_DATA_PATH"] is set to a root directory. Why is that so and how can I solve this?

My installation commands:

conda create --name art
conda activate art
pip install adversarial-robustness-toolbox

My pip list output

(art) ray@T480s:~/adversarial-robustness-toolbox$ pip list
Package Version

---

adversarial-robustness-toolbox 1.11.0
certifi 2022.6.15
joblib 1.1.0
llvmlite 0.39.0
numba 0.56.0
numpy 1.22.4
pip 22.1.2
scikit-learn 1.0.2
scipy 1.8.1
setuptools 61.2.0
six 1.16.0
threadpoolctl 3.1.0
tqdm 4.64.0
wheel 0.37.1

[beat-buesser]

Hi @keode Did you install ART as root?

[keode]

Hi @beat-buesser Thanks for your prompt reply. No. I did not use sudo pip to install art.. I used the following commands to install it (in a conda virtual environment though)
conda create --name art #create a conda virtual environment
conda activate art #so this command activates the virtual environment and I see the environment name (art) preceding every command prompt. Then I install art by
pip install adversarial-robustness-toolbox

[beat-buesser]

@keode Ok, I see. I was asking about root because the folder .art is by default created in the user's home directory. What is the content of your environment variable HOME?