Jovyan password/ write permission jupyter terminal online

[aguzmanmesa]

Hi all!
I am working on Jupyter from my university server. Everything was perfect until I tried to install a library for my work from the jupyter console.
I downloaded the tar file, unzipped it, ran ./configure and installed it, however, for the last part I got an error: the library I am installing needs write permission in some directories (/usr/local/lib and /usr/local/share/info) but when I use chmod to allow it either I am asked for the jovyan password I don't know or it says the operation is not permitted.
What can I do?

I am pretty new with this , so any help will be appreciated!
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[takluyver]

It depends on your university's setup, but if the username is 'jovyan', that probably means your notebook runs in a docker container. You don't usually have sudo access inside a docker container, so if /usr/local is not writable by your user, you can't change that. There may be ways to install the software you want somewhere else - e.g. if the system has conda, look to see if the library is available through that.