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McLawrence
McLawrence

Reputation: 5255

pip PermissionError: [Errno 13] inside virtual environment

I created a virtual environment for python3.5 using python3 -m venv --system-site-packages <venv>.

Now when installing packages inside the virtual environment using pip3 I get the following error:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages'

Why does pip want to install the packages at /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages and not at <venv>/lib/python3.5/site-packages?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4016

Answers (1)

williezh
williezh

Reputation: 1015

If you want pip to install the packages at <venv>/lib/python3.5/site-packages, please create the virtual environment by this way: python3 -m venv <venv>

By the way, I usually create virtual environment as follows: alias venv='virtualenv --python=python3 venv' alias actvenv='source venv/bin/activate' venv actvenv

Upvotes: 3

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