django installation: cannot use pip to install django on linux(ubuntu)

Question

I tried to install django on ubuntu using pip. but unfortunately I got error like this. can someone explain this and tell me some ways to fix this?

error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django': Permission denied

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Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/home/franklingu/build/django   /setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-W5MhGe-record/install-record.txt failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /home/franklingu/.pip/pip.log

Answer 1

Don't use sudo use a virtual environment instead, like this:

$ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
$ mkvirtualenv django_env
$ source django_env/bin/activate
(django_env) $ pip install django
(django_env) $ cd $HOME
(django_env) $ mkdir projects
(django_env) $ cd projects
(django_env)/projects $ django-admin.py startproject foo
(django_env)/projects $ cd foo
(django_env)/projects/foo $ python manage.py runserver

When you are finished; type deactivate to exit the virtual environment:

(django_env)/projects/foo $ deactivate
/projects/foo $

Answer 2

试试sudo pip install django 。

Answer 3

The location which you are trying to install django "usr/local/lib/..." is root owanership location.So for every command you would require sudo.

Instead of that you can follow these stpes

1.Install vitrual environment

$ sudo pip install virtualenv

2.Create virtual env

$ virtualenv -p python3 testEnv 

(Dont use sudo here it will make the environment root ownership.Here i am creating python 3 environment)

3.Activate that env using following command

$ source testEnv/bin/activate

4. Install django using the command

$ pip install django

5.Using the follwing command you can check the installed packages in that environment

$ pip freeze

note:It is better to use pip commands without sudo.If we are using sudo that package will change to root ownership