setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a workaround in my opinion. The shared library (client) has RPATH / RUNPATH set to find the dependency libraries, but for some reason the install layout isn't correct on Debian / Fedora (at least, not for the matrix that I tried): the RUNPATH is being set, but it points to a non-existent directory. Specifically, the pyxrootd client lib is installed into the .egg-info directory instead of the pyxrootd directory in site-packages. This looks like a bug rather than a deliberate layout decision, although I'm not familiar with the platform nuances here to know for certain!

Agreed — definitely a "get things working now" approach (though I've become far too used to having to update LD_LIBRARY_PATH for working with Debian packages in general, so this is sadly not rare). Once it is understood what it should be and what it is now I would recommend opening up a new Issue that documents all of this clearly and asks an XRootD maintainer to fix it. 👍

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