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pythonterminalyoutube-dlmacos-high-sierradiscord.py
sarora
sarora

Reputation: 522

I am getting an error when installing youtube-dl via the pip command on macOS High Sierra

Long story short, I am creating a discord bot and I need youtube-dl to do so. When I went to install it on terminal, I used the command

pip install youtube-dl

and I got this

Collecting youtube-dl
  Using cached youtube_dl-2017.12.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: youtube-dl
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install
    **kwargs
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files
    clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 316, in clobber
    ensure_dir(destdir)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, 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/youtube_dl'

I don't really know what to make of this or weather or not it is a bug with the pip command itself in High Sierra. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1411

Answers (2)

Joe McMahon
Joe McMahon

Reputation: 3392

I would recommend that you not change the system Python, but instead use homebrew to install Python, then install youtube-dl:

brew install python
brew install youtube-dl

Upvotes: 1

Mahesh Karia
Mahesh Karia

Reputation: 2055

You're getting permission denied as current user do not have required permission therefore use sudo along with your command as follows:

sudo pip install youtube-dl

or run terminal with root user and run your command.

Upvotes: 2

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