Where are the config files for pip installed packages in Ubuntu 14?

Question

I am trying to install radicale on Ubuntu 14 and I need to change the config file, which is supposed to be located either /etc/radicale/config or ~/.config/radicale/config.

However, installing with pip sudo pip install radicale neither of the radicale directories are created.

Where are the config files for pip installed packages?

Answer 1

By default, none of those configuration files exist, just go ahead and create one system wide /etc/radicale/config or for particular user ~/.config/radicale/config or even both, radicale will read them in this order, first system wide and then the users one and after that it will check for RADICALE_CONFIG environment variable and try to read configuration file it's pointing to as well.

Default configuration values can be found in config.py inside radicale module.

$ python -c "import radicale; print(radicale)"
<module 'radicale' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/radicale/__init__.pyc'>

So config.py will be located at:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/radicale/config.py