[ovs-discuss] Unable to get openvswitch.ko installed (utilities/ovs-dev.py)

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:22:29PM +0200, Stefan Mehner wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I want to set up my development environment for OVS and found the hint that ''utilities/ovs-dev.py'' may be useful. 
> So I followed the instructions provided by  "./ovs-dev.py doc" straightforward.
> 
> Everything up to "./ovs-dev.py conf make" was successful, but I am not able to install the kernel modules, since they are not existing in "datapath/linux/".
> 
> So I found the "modinst" parameter, but this also fails:
> 
> ./ovs-dev.py modinst
> ------> sudo ./ovs-dev.py modinst
> sudo: ./ovs-dev.py: command not found

This looks like sudo itself can't find the ovs-dev.py script.  Maybe
figure out whether sudo is configured not to search the current
directory for some reason.