CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondjango
EI-01
EI-01

Reputation: 1095

Error from installing Django using pip on mac

Hello I'm getting this error on my mac when i tried installing Django using pip. I created a directory and virtual environment. But ran into this error when attempting to install django.

Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 209, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 317, in run
prefix=options.prefix_path,
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 731, in install
**kwargs
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 841, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1040, in move_wheel_files
isolated=self.isolated,
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 343, in move_wheel_files
clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 314, in clobber
ensure_dir(destdir)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 82, in ensure_dir
os.makedirs(path)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 918

Answers (1)

Simon McClive
Simon McClive

Reputation: 2616

Have you activated your virtual environment?

source env/bin/activate

It looks like you are running the default pip and you don't have permission to install into the directory. If you run sudo pip install django it should work.

Upvotes: 2

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