pip install django error

Question

I\'m trying to install django using pip in Terminal.

I always get an exception, however. The last error is always \"permission deni

Answer 1

My Solution for [Errno 13] Permission denied:

Target: To install package into system/virtualenv

Why you get this problem? Because apart from root, other users you created don't have permission to write to site-packages, that is why you get OS error permission denied for that user

How to solve?

Make sure you activated the virtualenv all the time

Source bin/activate

Suppose, I created a user

(sampleEnv) sunny@ubuntu-512mb-lon1-01: pip install django

This will give the Permission error, Instead of that shift to root

$ su -

(sampleEnv) root@ubuntu-512mb-lon1-01: pip install django

Now root have permission to write to site-packages.

Once django is installed. Shift back to user

$ su - sunny

then do pip freeze you can see packages installed in system and go on!

Answer 2

pip should be run by a user which has permissions to write to site-packages directory (in your case, /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/). You should either run it from the root user or under sudo.

Answer 3

sudo pip install django 

The error tells you that you can't access a directory (you don't have enough permissions), so you can gain root access via sudo to get the permissions.