pip install fails

[diehlpk]

pip3 install pandas scipy numpy matplotlib scikit-learn Collecting pandas Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/08/ec/b5dd8cfb078380fb5ae9325771146bccd4e8cad2d3e4c72c7433010684eb/pandas-1.0.1-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (10.1MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 10.1MB 169kB/s Requirement already satisfied: scipy in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages Requirement already satisfied: numpy in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages Collecting matplotlib Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e6/fc/5889757c4c70c552f56fddc8fbdcab565475686cdebdfa1806a9d54cd53b/matplotlib-3.2.0-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (12.4MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 12.4MB 135kB/s Collecting scikit-learn Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5e/d8/312e03adf4c78663e17d802fe2440072376fee46cada1404f1727ed77a32/scikit_learn-0.22.2.post1-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (7.1MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 7.1MB 236kB/s Requirement already satisfied: pytz>=2017.2 in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from pandas) Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.6.1 in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from pandas) Collecting cycler>=0.10 (from matplotlib) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f7/d2/e07d3ebb2bd7af696440ce7e754c59dd546ffe1bbe732c8ab68b9c834e61/cycler-0.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting kiwisolver>=1.0.1 (from matplotlib) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f8/a1/5742b56282449b1c0968197f63eae486eca2c35dcd334bab75ad524e0de1/kiwisolver-1.1.0-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (90kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 92kB 7.4MB/s Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing!=2.0.4,!=2.1.2,!=2.1.6,>=2.0.1 in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from matplotlib) Collecting joblib>=0.11 (from scikit-learn) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/28/5c/cf6a2b65a321c4a209efcdf64c2689efae2cb62661f8f6f4bb28547cf1bf/joblib-0.14.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (294kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 296kB 4.1MB/s Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from python-dateutil>=2.6.1->pandas) Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from kiwisolver>=1.0.1->matplotlib) Installing collected packages: pandas, cycler, kiwisolver, matplotlib, joblib, scikit-learn Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 365, in run strip_file_prefix=options.strip_file_prefix, File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 789, in install **kwargs File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 854, in install strip_file_prefix=strip_file_prefix File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1069, in move_wheel_files strip_file_prefix=strip_file_prefix, File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files clobber(source, lib_dir, True) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 287, in clobber ensure_dir(dest) # common for the 'include' path File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/utils/init.py", line 83, in ensure_dir os.makedirs(path) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/os.py", line 210, in makedirs makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib64/python3.6'

[diehlpk]

pip3 install --user pandas scipy numpy matplotlib scikit-learn

Pip does not install default to the user space, and you have to specify the --user flag

[akheir]

Fixed by upgrading and configuring pip3 to use --user by default