Permission denied error when trying to install pip in Mac OS X Lion

Question

I\'m trying to install pip on a Mac (OS X Lion). It doesn\'t seem to work. I use sudo and prompted for password.

$ sudo curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/         


        

Answer 1

You are running the curl (download) command under sudo, but the python process itself is running without elevated privileges.

Run it like this instead:

$ curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
$ sudo python get-pip.py

Alternatively, use the sudo command on the python part of the pipe instead:

$ curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | sudo python