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pip install fails with permission denied

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Pip version: 9.0.1
Python version: 3.6
Operating system: CentOS 7

I’m using a conda environment.

Description:

I’m trying to install the nnpy package. Unfortunately, pip fails because it creates read-only files in /tmp and then tries to write to them.

What I’ve run:


$ git clone https://github.com/nanomsg/nnpy.git
$ pip install ./nnpy
Processing ./nnpy
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/om/user/vladfi1/.conda/envs/tf-cpu-pypi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/om/user/vladfi1/.conda/envs/tf-cpu-pypi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 335, in run
    wb.build(autobuilding=True)
  File "/om/user/vladfi1/.conda/envs/tf-cpu-pypi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 749, in build
    self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
  File "/om/user/vladfi1/.conda/envs/tf-cpu-pypi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 380, in prepare_files
    ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
  File "/om/user/vladfi1/.conda/envs/tf-cpu-pypi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 620, in _prepare_file
    session=self.session, hashes=hashes)
  File "/om/user/vladfi1/.conda/envs/tf-cpu-pypi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/download.py", line 809, in unpack_url
    unpack_file_url(link, location, download_dir, hashes=hashes)
  File "/om/user/vladfi1/.conda/envs/tf-cpu-pypi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/download.py", line 686, in unpack_file_url
    shutil.copytree(link_path, location, symlinks=True)
  File "/om/user/vladfi1/.conda/envs/tf-cpu-pypi/lib/python3.6/shutil.py", line 359, in copytree
    raise Error(errors)
shutil.Error: [('/om/user/vladfi1/nnpy/.git/objects/pack/pack-b781daf3caebcd4b82b9fbf8e22a949dd886c891.idx', '/tmp/pip-ava1_73j-build/.git/objects/pack/pack-b781daf3caebcd4b82b9fbf8e22a949dd886c891.idx', "[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/pip-ava1_73j-build/.git/objects/pack/pack-b781daf3caebcd4b82b9fbf8e22a949dd886c891.idx'"), ('/om/user/vladfi1/nnpy/.git/objects/pack/pack-b781daf3caebcd4b82b9fbf8e22a949dd886c891.pack', '/tmp/pip-ava1_73j-build/.git/objects/pack/pack-b781daf3caebcd4b82b9fbf8e22a949dd886c891.pack', "[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/pip-ava1_73j-build/.git/objects/pack/pack-b781daf3caebcd4b82b9fbf8e22a949dd886c891.pack'")]
$ ls -la /tmp/pip-ava1_73j-build/.git/objects/pack/pack-b781daf3caebcd4b82b9fbf8e22a949dd886c891.pack
-r--r--r--

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

vladfi1commented, May 31, 2017

I suspect this is an edge case caused by the presence of .git which doesn’t need to be copied. Removing the .git folder fixed the issue.

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ctaggartcommented, Jun 7, 2019

I’m pretty sure I hit this bug when trying to install this on Windows with 3.7.3 like so:

git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-keyvault-cli-extension.git
cd azure-keyvault-cli-extension
pipenv --python C:\Users\taggac\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python.exe
pip install pipenv
pipenv install -e git+https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli-dev-tools.git@master#egg=azdev

It says it is fixed in 3.8.0b1, so I installed it from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-380b1/ and it works. 🎉

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