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Lainly
Lainly

Reputation: 115

Why pip freeze >requirements.txt return Permission denied

When I worked in a virtual environment, I installed my packages django-2.0 there. Yet it is installed globally:

sudo virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.5 ~/.virtualenv/venv
source ~/.virtualenv/venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip install django==2.0

And I had django-1.11 in my global environment before. However django-1.11 is also hoping to be installed into the other virtual environment, but it was also installed globally. I uninstall this package, and try to install it into my virtual environ again. but it seems like not work at all. All package installed newly were in global env.

Now i want to use pip freeze >requirements.txt to get requirements file,but it return :

(venv) $ pip3 freeze >requirements.txt
bash: requirements.txt: Permission denied
(venv) $ sudo pip3 freeze >requirements.txt
bash: requirements.txt: Permission denied

I thought maybe it was because that i install these package globally?I don't know.

How can i install package into my virtual environment correctly, and get requirement file:(

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5202

Answers (1)

Gabriel Samain
Gabriel Samain

Reputation: 507

It is a mere permission issue: check that requirements doesn't already exists with some permission you don't have. If so, sudo rm requirements.txt and pip3 freeze > requirements.txt should do the trick.

Else it should mean you don't have the write permission in the folder you are in. Try sudo chown -R your_username directory_path

Upvotes: 1

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