Windows 10 OSError: symbolic link privilege not held
See original GitHub issueJust tried to install the new models on my Windows 10 machine and received the following error:
Error Message
$ python -m spacy download en_core_web_md
Downloading en_core_web_md-1.2.0/en_core_web_md-1.2.0.tar.gz
Collecting https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_md-1.2.0/en_core_web_md-1.2.0.tar.gz
Downloading https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_md-1.2.0/en_core_web_md-1.2.0.tar.gz (1086.4MB)
Requirement already satisfied: spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: preshed<2.0.0,>=1.0.0 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.7 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: thinc<6.6.0,>=6.5.0 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: murmurhash<0.27,>=0.26 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: cymem<1.32,>=1.30 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: ujson>=1.35 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: plac<1.0.0,>=0.9.6 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pathlib in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: requests<3.0.0,>=2.13.0 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: dill<0.3,>=0.2 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: wrapt in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from thinc<6.6.0,>=6.5.0->spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: cytoolz<0.9,>=0.8 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from thinc<6.6.0,>=6.5.0->spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: termcolor in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from thinc<6.6.0,>=6.5.0->spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: tqdm<5.0.0,>=4.10.0 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from thinc<6.6.0,>=6.5.0->spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyreadline>=1.7.1 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from dill<0.3,>=0.2->spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: toolz>=0.8.0 in c:\users\dcard\source\repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages (from cytoolz<0.9,>=0.8->thinc<6.6.0,>=6.5.0->spacy<2.0.0,>=1.7.0->en-core-web-md==1.2.0)
Building wheels for collected packages: en-core-web-md
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for en-core-web-md: started
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for en-core-web-md: finished with status 'done'
Stored in directory: C:\Users\dcard\AppData\Local\pip\Cache\wheels\42\f7\30\a2fa8570180c270dae13ed81c30264c2dbbf9a07821886656a
Successfully built en-core-web-md
Installing collected packages: en-core-web-md
Successfully installed en-core-web-md-1.2.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\dcard\anaconda3\Lib\runpy.py", line 184, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)
File "c:\users\dcard\anaconda3\Lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\spacy\__main__.py", line 71, in <module>
plac.Interpreter.call(CLI)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 1142, in call
print(out)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 914, in __exit__
self.close(exctype, exc, tb)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 952, in close
self._interpreter.throw(exctype, exc, tb)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 964, in _make_interpreter
arglist = yield task
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 1139, in call
raise_(task.etype, task.exc, task.tb)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 53, in raise_
raise exc.with_traceback(tb)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 380, in _wrap
for value in genobj:
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 95, in gen_exc
raise_(etype, exc, tb)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 53, in raise_
raise exc.with_traceback(tb)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_ext.py", line 966, in _make_interpreter
cmd, result = self.parser.consume(arglist)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\plac_core.py", line 207, in consume
return cmd, self.func(*(args + varargs + extraopts), **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\spacy\__main__.py", line 30, in download
cli_download(model, direct)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\spacy\cli\download.py", line 25, in download
link_package(model_name, model, force=True)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\spacy\cli\link.py", line 27, in link_package
symlink(model_path, link_name, force)
File "C:\Users\dcard\Source\Repos\py-olympus\venv\lib\site-packages\spacy\cli\link.py", line 46, in symlink
link_path.symlink_to(model_path)
File "c:\users\dcard\anaconda3\Lib\pathlib.py", line 1297, in symlink_to
self._accessor.symlink(target, self, target_is_directory)
File "c:\users\dcard\anaconda3\Lib\pathlib.py", line 377, in wrapped
return strfunc(str(pathobjA), str(pathobjB), *args)
OSError: symbolic link privilege not held
(venv)
Your Environment
- Operating System: Windows 10 64 bit
- Python Version Used: 3.5
- spaCy Version Used: 1.7.2
- Environment Information: virtualenv
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 7 years ago
- Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)
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Please go for a system wide installation. You can do that by:
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