Downloading pygame for python 3 on mac error

Question

I tried to install pygame on my macbook pro by entering pip install pygame into the terminal. It didn't work and it just gave me:

Collecting pygame Using cached pygame-1.9.3-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_9_intel.whl Installing collected packages: pygame Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run prefix=options.prefix_path, File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install **kwargs File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files isolated=self.isolated, File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files clobber(source, lib_dir, True) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 316, in clobber ensure_dir(destdir) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir os.makedirs(path) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pygame'

I'm kinda new to programming and using the terminal for things so I might have made a huge stupid mistake but if you know what I did wrong or what I have to do to fix it please tell me.

Answer 1

I think you are running the command as a user that does not have permission to write to the system folders containing the Python base. Not sure on a Mac how you run a sudo command.

Answer 2

Use sudo pip install pygame to install. The last line of the error says permission denied, meaning you don't have permission as the current user. Sudo will temporarily make you root.