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DerWeh
DerWeh

Reputation: 1821

python pip broken by virtualenv

I recently had to switch my machine at work. On the new machine, pip is not anymore.

$ pip --version
...
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-15.0.1.dist-info'

I imagine that this issue is caused by virtualenv, as I never encountered any problems on my old machine and the only difference I find, is that there was no virtualenv package installed on the old machine.

However 

$ python -c "import pip; print pip.__version__"
10.0.1

still works.

I would be grateful if anyone could provide help, how to fix this problem or trace down the real problem.

Please note: I do not have root rights.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1252

Answers (1)

billa-code
billa-code

Reputation: 567

Here the problem is you don't have permission to the system folder. So whenever you use pip try to use it like this.

python -m pip install --user package

Here the package means the package you need to install using pip. Furthermore try using the following command to upgrade the version of your pip.

python -m pip install --user --upgrade pip

Upvotes: 1

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