`--prefix=~/.local` uses the literal subdirectory `~/.local`

[pdimov]

The intent is of course tilde expansion to cause this to be treated as --prefix=$HOME/.local, but it isn't.

[Kojoley]

I hit the same issue recently. Did not even recognize that I have not updated the previous content until finding ~ folder.

[grisumbras]

Expansion of tilde is supposed to be done by the shell. So, the question is, why didn't your shell do it?

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