Error message on Mac when installing wireless

[youthfulguru]

Tried to install wireless and got the following error message: error: could not create '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/wireless': Permission denied

[joshvillbrandt]

@youthfulguru, what command did you use to install wireless? Did you include sudo? Without knowing what you tried, my best guess is that you tried to install wireless globally using pip install wireless. I think adding sudo beforehand would fix this.

[youthfulguru]

Thanks for responding. Tried that again and after some collecting, downloading and installing I got this error message ""python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-QYvzqW/wireless/"

[joshvillbrandt]

Does this stack overflow page help you at all?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35991403/python-pip-install-gives-command-python-setup-py-egg-info-failed-with-error-c

[youthfulguru]

I believe I'm having trouble upgrading (or installing) setuptools. When I tried sudo pip install wireless I noticed this message at the top:

The directory '/Users/x/Library/Caches/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. The directory '/Users/x/Library/Caches/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.

Does that make a difference? How can I fix that?

[joshvillbrandt]

The first answer on that stack overflow page goes over a few suggestions on installing and upgrading setuptools and related packages. Have you tried those suggestions?

[youthfulguru]

No, when I try to upgrade setuptools I get a long error

Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run prefix=options.prefix_path, File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 778, in install requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 754, in uninstall paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 115, in remove renames(path, new_path) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/init.py", line 267, in renames shutil.move(old, new) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 299, in move copytree(src, real_dst, symlinks=True) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 208, in copytree raise Error, errors Error: [('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/markers.pyc', '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/markers.pyc', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/markers.pyc'"), ('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/init.py', '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/init.py', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/init.py'"), ('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/markers.py', '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/markers.py', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/markers.py'"), ('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/init.pyc', '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/init.pyc', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/init.pyc'"), ('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib', '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/folders/rp/9pt64y_d11x9dgt8x_cbwmf00000gn/T/pip-QX6BRW-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib'")]

[joshvillbrandt]

I'm definitely not qualified to debug setuptools itself. You could try removing Python and setuptools completely and start over maybe?

I think you're on your own from here. :/

[youthfulguru]

Figured it out!

Tried sudo -H pip install --ignore-installed setuptools and that worked. Followed up with pip install ez_setup which also worked. Finally used sudo pip install wireless which worked.

Thanks!

[joshvillbrandt]

Awesome! I'm glad you got it to work. :)