搞乱了Python包的安装？ （OS X）

Question

I think i somehow messed up installing packages for python and the whole environment. Whenever i want to install something i run into problems like:

directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled

Also PyCharm thinks i still need to install referenced packages (no modules. Which is wrong since i can use them. When i click on 'install referenced packages' i get the mentioned warning from above plus:

OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

Hopefully one of you can help! :(

Best regards Matthias

Edit: At some point i also installed a venv for python. Maybe this relates to my problem. I'm rly sorry i am new to it and have no idea what i'm doing.

Answer 1

You have an issue with your permissions, if you run

which python

you will see where your current version of python is installed. If you're on osx, I seriously recommend downloading brew here: https://brew.sh/ . Just paste that command into your terminal, then you should install python by running:

brew install python

This will give you some later instructions, but the brew bundled version of python is alot more robust than the one that gets bundled with your system. Another note is that if you're using virtual environments, consider using virtualenvwrapper here . This should make things run alot more smoothly for you :)

Hope that helps.