tofuenv doesn't install in user prefixes

[txomon]

Describe the bug
I'm using tfenv as a user, all terraform versions being installed in ~/.tfenv/bin. It seems like tofuenv is not working as I expected it to.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. In a linux machine, using arch for example, install tofuenv through aur for example
2. Try to install a version:

❯ tofuenv install 1.11.3
Installing OpenTofu v1.11.3
Downloading release tarball from https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.11.3/tofu_1.11.3_linux_amd64.zip
Warning: The provided HTTP header '' does not look like a header?
######################################################################################################################################## 100.0%
Downloading SHA hash file from https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.11.3/tofu_1.11.3_SHA256SUMS
Warning: The provided HTTP header '' does not look like a header?
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/lib/tofuenv’: Permission denied
Failed to make directory /var/lib/tofuenv/versions/1.11.3

Expected behavior
I would expect tofuenv to install to my homedir.

Another way that should work theoretically
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. In a linux machine, using arch for example, install tofuenv through aur for example
2. Try to install a version specifying what the tofuenv install dir should be:

❯ export TOFUENV_INSTALL_DIR=/home/user/.tofuenv/bin/
❯ mkdir -p $TOFUENV_INSTALL_DIR
❯ tofuenv install 1.11.3
Installing OpenTofu v1.11.3
Downloading release tarball from https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.11.3/tofu_1.11.3_linux_amd64.zip
Warning: The provided HTTP header '' does not look like a header?
######################################################################################################################################## 100.0%
Downloading SHA hash file from https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.11.3/tofu_1.11.3_SHA256SUMS
Warning: The provided HTTP header '' does not look like a header?
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/lib/tofuenv’: Permission denied
Failed to make directory /var/lib/tofuenv/versions/1.11.3

Expected behaviour
I would expect tofuenv to install to ~/.tofuenv/bin

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: linux
• tofuenv version [e.g. 0.8.0]: 1.0.2-2 (from aur)

Additional context
I'm only filling this as a bug because tfenv works like this and I understood tofuenv wants to replicate the behaviour

[kvendingoldo]

Hi @txomon,
Thanks for reporting the issue - we’ll take a look.

In the meantime, we recommend migrating to https://github.com/tofuutils/tenv. tofuenv is now in maintenance/support mode, and we’ve moved our active development efforts to tenv.

[txomon]

It's the same issue in tenv

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[kvendingoldo]

Did you try TENV_ROOT option?