Error installing Pillow (Django)

Question

I'm having trouble getting Pillow to install. Here's the full traceback:

Collecting Pillow
 Using cached Pillow-4.0.0-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_6_intel.macosx_10_9_intel.macosx_10_9_x86_64.macosx_10_10_intel.macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl
Collecting olefile (from Pillow)
 Using cached olefile-0.44.zip
Installing collected packages: olefile, Pillow
 Running setup.py install for olefile ... error
 Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/bt/_3d4816x12d95tzvcp_0302w0000gn/T/pip-build-UyBMYN/olefile/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/bt/_3d4816x12d95tzvcp_0302w0000gn/T/pip-QHsEXV-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
 running install
 running build
 running build_py
 creating build
 creating build/lib
 copying OleFileIO_PL.py -> build/lib
 creating build/lib/olefile
 copying olefile/__init__.py -> build/lib/olefile
 copying olefile/olefile.py -> build/lib/olefile
 copying olefile/README.rst -> build/lib/olefile
 copying olefile/README.html -> build/lib/olefile
 copying olefile/LICENSE.txt -> build/lib/olefile
 copying olefile/CONTRIBUTORS.txt -> build/lib/olefile
 running install_lib
 creating /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/olefile
 error: could not create '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/olefile': Permission denied
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Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/bt/_3d4816x12d95tzvcp_0302w0000gn/T/pip-build-UyBMYN/olefile/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/bt/_3d4816x12d95tzvcp_0302w0000gn/T/pip-QHsEXV-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/bt/_3d4816x12d95tzvcp_0302w0000gn/T/pip-build-UyBMYN/olefile/

The error seems to be 'Permission denied' when attempting to create the folder; though I cannot understand why...

My machine is running Mac OSX, and I'm using Terminal to run the commands for this Django project.

Answer 1

Because the normal user doesn't have permission to install packages globally. Either run with sudo, or - much better - use a virtualenv and install your packages in there.

Answer 2

There're several questions regarding this problem, I'd suggest to take a look at these:

• Using virtualenv https://stackoverflow.com/a/19472082/394647
• Using $HOMEhttps://stackoverflow.com/a/7143496/394647

I prefer the second one but it also depends on your project/app structure