Default installation location

Did you install from the official project (source, pip, etc) or from distribution binaries? We don't control how the distributions choose to layout their own packages.

I installed using the official documentation with pip using these steps:

pip install https://github.com/graphite-project/ceres/tarball/master
pip install whisper
pip install carbon
pip install graphite-web

I would also like to add that /opt/graphite folder has not even been created.

I managed to install it under /opt/graphite by explicitly providing folder:

pip install carbon --install-option="--prefix=/opt/graphite" --install-option="--install-lib=/opt/graphite"

Now, when I try executing "pip uninstall carbon" I get "Cannot uninstall requirement carbon, not installed", probably because its carbon-0.9.13-py2.7.egg-info is now in /opt/graphite. Perhaps the issue is with pip, still looking into it.

Still haven't found a solution to this problem.

I'm seeing the behavior after spinning up a fresh CentOS 7 box today, and installing via Pip following the same instructions.

http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install-pip.html#installing-in-the-default-location

I don't know how pip works but the problem was solved by installing pip with

yum -y install python-pip

instead of wget from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

Now pip sets up Graphite in the correct directory.