Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError Errno 13

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In my MacOS Mojave terminal I wanted to install a python package with pip  At the end it says   You are using pip version 10 0 1  however version 18 1 is available  You should consider upgrading via the  pip install --upgrade pip  command    So I wanted to update pip with the given command but I got an error   Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError   Errno 13  Permission denied     Library Python 2 7 site-packages pip-18 0-py2 7 egg EGG-INFO PKG-INFO  Consider using the  --user  option or check the permissions    I don t really understand what to do now  Also I realized it says Python 2 7 in the error message but I have and want to use only python 3

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If you want to use python3  to install the packages you need to use pip3 install package name And to solve the errno 13 you have to add --user at the end pip3 install package name --user   EDIT  For any project in python it s highly recommended to work on a Virtual enviroment   is a tool that helps to keep dependencies required by different projects separate by creating isolated python virtual environments for them  In order to create one with python3  you have to use the following command  virtualenv enviroment name -p python3  And then you work on it just by activating it  source enviroment name bin activate  Once the virtual environment is activated  the name of your virtual environment will appear on left side of terminal  This will let you know that the virtual environment is currently active  Now you can install dependencies related to the project in this virtual environment by just using pip  pip install package name

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I have anaconda installed for Python 3  I also have Python2 in my mac   python --version   gives me     Python 3 7 3   python2 7 --version   gives me     Python 2 7 10   I wanted to install pyspark package in python2  given that it was already installed in python3   python2 7 -m pip install pyspark   gives me an error     Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError   Errno 13    Permission denied    Library Python 2 7 site-packages pyspark    Consider using the --user option or check the permissions    The below command solved it  Thank god I didn t have to do any config changes   python2 7 -m pip install pyspark --user      Collecting pyspark Requirement already satisfied  py4j  0 10 7 in    Library Python 2 7 site-packages  from pyspark   0 10 7  Installing   collected packages  pyspark Successfully installed pyspark-2 4 4 You   are using pip version 18 1  however version 19 3 1 is available  You   should consider upgrading via the  pip install --upgrade pip  command

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I had the same problem while installing numpy with pip install numpy   Then I tried   sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade pip  sudo -H pip3 install numpy  It worked well for me   Explanation     The -H  HOME  option with sudo sets the HOME environment variable to the home directory of the target user  root by default   By default  sudo does not modify HOME

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This worked for me    python3 -m venv env  source   env bin activate  python -m pip install package    From Github  https   github com googlesamples assistant-sdk-python issues 236

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This also happens to me when I try to install the opencv-python package   I can fix it with command line python3 -m pip install  name of package  --user  When I try to install the said package  the command becomes  python3 -m pip install opencv-python --user  Resulting in this

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I already tried all suggestion posted in here  yet I m still getting the errno 13   I m using Windows and my python version is 3 7 3  After 5 hours of trying to solve it  this step worked for me   I try to open the command prompt by run as administrator

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I was making the same mistakes then I realized that I have created my virtual environment as root user  It was write protected  so please check whether your virtual environment is write protected  make a new venv and try again

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try this command line below for MacOS to check user s permission     sudo python -m pip install --user --upgrade pip

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I also had the same problem  I tried many different command lines  this one worked for me   Try       conda install py-xgboost   That s what I got   Collecting package metadata  done Solving environment  done     Package Plan       environment location   home simplonco anaconda3    added   updated specs      - py-xgboost   The following packages will be downloaded       package                                 build     --------------------------- -----------------      py-xgboost-mutex-2 0                   cpu 0           9 KB     ca-certificates-2019 1 23                   0         126 KB     certifi-2018 11 29                     py37 0         146 KB     conda-4 6 2                            py37 0         1 7 MB     libxgboost-0 80                    he6710b0 0         3 7 MB     mkl-2019 1                                144       204 6 MB     mkl fft-1 0 10                 py37ha843d7b 0         169 KB     mkl random-1 0 2               py37hd81dba3 0         405 KB     numpy-1 15 4                   py37h7e9f1db 0          47 KB     numpy-base-1 15 4              py37hde5b4d6 0         4 2 MB     py-xgboost-0 80                py37he6710b0 0         1 7 MB     scikit-learn-0 20 2            py37hd81dba3 0         5 7 MB     scipy-1 2 0                    py37h7c811a0 0        17 7 MB     ------------------------------------------------------------                                            Total        240 0 MB  The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED      py-xgboost-mutex  pkgs main linux-64   py-xgboost-mutex-2 0-cpu 0   libxgboost         pkgs main linux-64  libxgboost-0 80-he6710b0 0   py-xgboost         pkgs main linux-64  py-xgboost-0 80-py37he6710b0 0  The following packages will be UPDATED     ca-certificates     anaconda  ca-certificates-2018 12 5-0 -- gt  pkgs main  ca-certificates-2019 1 23-0   mkl                                            2019 0-118 -- gt  2019 1-144   mkl fft                              1 0 4-py37h4414c95 1 -- gt  1 0 10-py37ha843d7b 0   mkl random                           1 0 1-py37h4414c95 1 -- gt  1 0 2-py37hd81dba3 0   numpy                               1 15 1-py37h1d66e8a 0 -- gt  1 15 4-py37h7e9f1db 0   numpy-base                          1 15 1-py37h81de0dd 0 -- gt  1 15 4-py37hde5b4d6 0   scikit-learn                        0 19 2-py37h4989274 0 -- gt  0 20 2-py37hd81dba3 0   scipy                                1 1 0-py37hfa4b5c9 1 -- gt  1 2 0-py37h7c811a0 0  The following packages will be SUPERSEDED by a higher-priority channel     certifi                                          anaconda -- gt  pkgs main   conda                                            anaconda -- gt  pkgs main   openssl                anaconda  openssl-1 1 1-h7b6447c 0 -- gt  pkgs main  openssl-1 1 1a-h7b6447c 0   Proceed   y  n   y   Downloading and Extracting Packages libxgboost-0 80        3 7 MB                                              100   mkl random-1 0 2       405 KB                                              100   certifi-2018 11 29     146 KB                                              100   ca-certificates-2019   126 KB                                              100   conda-4 6 2            1 7 MB                                              100   mkl-2019 1             204 6 MB                                            100   mkl fft-1 0 10         169 KB                                              100   numpy-1 15 4           47 KB                                               100   scipy-1 2 0            17 7 MB                                             100   scikit-learn-0 20 2    5 7 MB                                              100   py-xgboost-0 80        1 7 MB                                              100    py-xgboost-mutex-2    9 KB                                                100   numpy-base-1 15 4      4 2 MB                                              100   Preparing transaction  done Verifying transaction  done Executing transaction  done

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The answer is in the error message   In the past you or a process did a sudo pip and that caused some of the directories under  Library Python 2 7 site-packages     to have permissions that make it unaccessable to your current user   Then you did a pip install whatever which relies on the other thing   So to fix it  visit the  Library Python 2 7 site-packages     and find the directory with the root or not-your-user permissions and either remove then reinstall those packages  or just force ownership to the user to whom ought to have access

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Regarding the permissions command  try using sudo in front of your terminal command  sudo pip install --upgrade pip  Sudo allows you to run the command with the privileges of the superuser and will install the package for the global  system-wide Python installation  Ideally  you should create a virtual environment for the project you are working on  Have a look at this Regarding the python Try running pip as an executable like this  python3 6 -m pip install  lt package gt

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I got the same error when I was trying to install a package  flask-classful   I made the mistake of installing anaconda as root  I changed the ownership of the installed anaconda folder and I could install the package successfully   Use the command chown with option -R to recursively change ownership of the installed anaconda folder like so     chown -R owner group  path to anaconda  Here owner is your username and group is the group name

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For MacOs  amp  Unix Just by adding sudo to command will work  as it would run it as a superuser  sudo pip install --upgrade pip It is advised that you should not directly do it though - please see this post

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On Mac  there is no 3 7 directory or the directory 3 7 is owned by root  So  I removed that directory  create a new directory by current user  and move it there  Then installation finishes without error  sudo rm -rf  Library Python 3 7 mkdir 3 7 sudo mv 3 7  Library Python ll  Library Python  pip3 install numpy

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I had similar trouble in a venv on a mounted NTFS partition on linux with all the right permissions  Making sure pip ran with --ignore-installed solved it  i e   python -m pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed

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just sudo pip install packagename

[python] Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13]

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