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To: Jose Isaias Cabrera <jicman@outlook.com>
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Subject: Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044'
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:48:50 +0000
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Jose Isaias Cabrera writes:

> ...
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/_nixcommon.py", line 174, in ensure_root
>     raise ImportError('You must be root to use this library on linux.')
> ImportError: You must be root to use this library on linux.
>
> More work to be done.

Two things to try:
 1) Run python from an elevated shell (unlikely to make a difference);
 2) Same strategy -- edit _nixcommon.py to always return true from
    ensure_root.

Good luck,

ht
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