pygame安装权限问题

Question

I'm trying to download pygame on my Mac. I had Python 3.6.0 installed and I went to the terminal (nothing else) and ran;

pip install pygame

The end of the terminal said;

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/
Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame'

...But I tried it anyway in IDLE and it didn't work. I figured maybe this was for Python 2 so I installed Python 2.7.15 to see if that would work. Nothing.

Am I missing a step in installation or something?

Note: I have tried Python 2 and it does not work. I have tried installing using;

pip3 install pygame

...and I get the same error message at the end of the terminal output.

Answer 1

You can either use pip3 install pygame or python3 -m pip install pygame to install pygame for python 3.

The reason behind your error is because mac come with a python 2.7, so when you're using pip , it automatically think you're trying to install it to python2.7. But you don't have permission to that site package folder. Since you also downloaded python3, you can use pip by typing pip3 instead of pip .

If there's still a permission error, try running it as admin. For example sudo pip3 install pygame