Considering 4Suite-XML is over 10 years old, I don’t see why it’s not some package to quickly get. It’s already in a VM, so I really don’t care where it installs the files, I guess I’m too old for ‘virtual directories’ of pollution in VM’s to wave wands into containers to really care….. More so how to even go thru the python shuffle of adding stuff, and how it’s added zero progress from the days of having to compile crap for perl..

I’d never say that, upgrading most things is painful 🙂

I just wanted to suggest that instead of using ‘wget’ through to ‘setup.py install’, perhaps you could set up a Python virtualenv and then do ‘pip install 4Suite-XML’ (I assume that’ll work given the URL you downloaded from) into that virtualenv so that you can isolate your locally-installed packages in a directory of your own instead of them ending up in /usr.