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OS X Lion easy_install requires sudo ...?

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Mar 15, 20265609 views
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I'm on OS X Lion and wanting to setup python virtual environments. I want to use virtualenvwrapper. Can someone confirm that the correct way to do this is to install packages via easy_install (and subsequently pip) is using sudo Context: to install virtaulenv i wanted to use pip, so i did it seems ā€¦

Error Output

$ easy_install pip
error: can't create or remove files in install directory

The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
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Fix for: OS X Lion easy_install requires sudo ...?

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Making /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ world-executable with: worked for me.

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