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Unable to update Pip. Access is denied. What for?

I am trying to update pip on my iMac, but I get a denial of denial all the time. I am an administrator, so I do not know what I did wrong.

iMac:~ me$ pip install --upgrade pip You are using pip version 6.0.8, however version 7.1.2 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. Collecting pip from https://pypi.python.org/packages/py2.py3/p/pip/pip-7.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=5ff9fec0be479e4e36df467556deed4d Downloading pip-7.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.1MB) 100% |################################| 1.1MB 181kB/s Installing collected packages: pip Found existing installation: pip 6.0.8 Uninstalling pip-6.0.8: Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.8-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 232, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.8-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 347, in run root=options.root_path, File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.8-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 543, in install requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.8-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 667, in uninstall paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.8-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 126, in remove renames(path, new_path) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.8-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 316, in renames shutil.move(old, new) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 300, in move rmtree(src) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 247, in rmtree rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 252, in rmtree onerror(os.remove, fullname, sys.exc_info()) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 250, in rmtree os.remove(fullname) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.8-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/dependency_links.txt'

I don’t know what I did wrong here, as the update looks pretty simple.

Thanks,

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pip installations require upgrades

 sudo pip install --upgrade pip

Just because you are using an administrator account does not mean that the command will work with an increase if you do not specify sudo

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You must use sudo since you are updating the pip globally. I prefer to install Homebrew and let Homebrew manage everything.

  • Install Xcode from the App Store
  • Install Homebrew - ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  • Install Python - brew install python , which also installs pip.

With this setting, everything is installed locally, which does not require running sudo .

Hope this helps.

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You can do one of two ways:

  • chown -R user /path/to/file more information can be found in this post fooobar.com/questions/210681 / ... , while this does not apply to the specific problem that he is dealing with the same problem
  • A quick and dirty way to just do pip install --upgrade pip , as mentioned. However, many users will offer against this.
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