pip: inconsistent permissions issues

Question

When installing a package via sudo pip-python (CentOS 6 package: python-pip-0.8-1.el6.noarch), I sometimes get permission issues with the installed pac

Answer 1

If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag

-H, --set-home set HOME variable to target user's home dir

e.g

sudo -H pip install virtualenv