pip install Please check the permissions and owner of that directory

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While installing pip and python I have ran into a that says      The directory   Users Parthenon Library Logs pi  or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the debug log has been disabled  Please check the permissions and owner of that directory  If executing pip with sudo  you may want the -H flag    because I now have to install using sudo   I had python and a handful of libraries already installed on my Mac  I m running Yosemite  I recently had to do a clean wipe and then reinstall of the OS  Now I m getting this prompt and I m having trouble figuring out how to change it  Before my command line was Parthenon  now it s Philips-MBP   Parthenon   I am the sole owner of this computer and this is the only account on it  This seems to be a problem when upgrading to python 3 4  nothing seems to be in the right place  virtualenv isn t going where I expect it to  etc

User · Answer

What is the problem here is that you somehow installed into virtualenv using sudo. Probably by accident. This means root user will rewrite Python package data, making all file owned by root and your normal user cannot write those files anymore. Usually virtualenv should be used and owned by your normal UNIX user only.

You can fix the issue by changing UNIX file permissions pack to your user. Try:

$ sudo chown -R USERNAME /Users/USERNAME/Library/Logs/pip
$ sudo chown -R USERNAME /Users/USERNAME/Library/Caches/pip

then pip should be able to write those files again.

More information about UNIX file permission management

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I also saw this change on my Mac when I went from running pip to sudo pip  Adding -H to sudo causes the message to go away for me  E g   sudo -H pip install foo   man sudo tells me that -H causes sudo to set  HOME to the target users  root in this case    So it appears pip is looking into  HOME Library Log and sudo by default isn t setting  HOME to  root   Not surprisingly   Library Log is owned by you as a user rather than root   I suspect this is some recent change in pip  I ll run it with sudo -H for now to work around

User · Answer

pip install --user  lt package name gt   no sudo needed  worked for me for a very similar problem

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basic info   system  mac os 18 0 0 current user  yutou   the key   add the current account to wheel group   sudo dscl   -append  Groups wheel wheel   whoami     modify python package mode to 775    chmod -R 775   this is your python package path    the whole thing   when python3 compiled well  the infomation is just like the question said  I try to use pip3 install requests and got    File   usr local python3 lib python3 6 os py   line 220  in makedirs     mkdir name  mode  PermissionError   Errno 13  Permission denied     usr local python3 lib python3 6 site-packages requests     so i cd  usr local python3 lib python3 6 site-packages   then ls -al and got    drwxr-xr-x    6 root   wheel   192B  2 27 18 06 requests    when i saw this  i understood  makedirs is an action of write  but the requests mode drwxrwxr-x displaied only user root  can write the requests file  If add yutou whoami  to the group wheel  and modify the package to the group wheel can write  then i can write  and the problem solved   How to add yutou to group wheel    detect group wheel  sudo dscl   -list  groups GroupMembership  you will find   wheel                    root   the group wheel only one member root    add yutou to group wheel  sudo dscl   -append  Groups wheel wheel yutou     check  sudo dscl   -list  groups GroupMembership   wheel                    root yutou   modify the python package mode   chmod -R 775  usr local python3 lib python3 6

User · Answer

If you altered your  PATH variable that could also cause the problem  If you think that might be the issue  check your    bash profile or    bashrc

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