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Rob Schneider
Rob Schneider

Reputation: 699

Setting up tornado in mac

I'm new to using mac and tornado. I have installed easy_install and tried installing tornado but I am keep getting "Permission denied"

easy_install tornado

Searching for tornado Best match: tornado 2.3 Processing tornado-2.3-py2.7.egg Adding tornado 2.3 to easy-install.pth file error: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth: Permission denied

What is going wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5289

Answers (2)

acidjunk
acidjunk

Reputation: 1880

Try running it like this:

sudo easy_install tornado

When you are using stock python on OSX the easy_install command will install tornado system wide and it therefore needs admin rights. When using homebrew python (e.g. installed brew and python with "brew install python") then you can install python packages without having to do the sudo.

One word of advice: when working on a lot of python projects it's better to use virtualenv for installing python deps; that way you can have multiple isolated python environments AND you don't need the sudo.

Upvotes: 1

hyperboreean
hyperboreean

Reputation: 8343

You might want to try running that command as root if you want to install tornado system-wide or take a look at virtualenv for installing python packages in a sandboxed environment. Also, I recommend pythonbrew if you want to experiment with various versions of Python.

Upvotes: 0

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