Getting Error while installing djangorestframework - Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djangorestframework-3.6.3.dist-info'

Question

I want to install Django rest framework in fedora-25 but when I run this command :

pip install djangorestframework

I'm getting following error:

Collecting djangorestframework
Using cached djangorestframework-3.6.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: djangorestframework
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 326, in run
strip_file_prefix=options.strip_file_prefix,
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 742, in install
**kwargs
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 834, in install
strip_file_prefix=strip_file_prefix
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1037, in move_wheel_files
strip_file_prefix=strip_file_prefix,
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 346, in move_wheel_files
clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 317, in clobber
ensure_dir(destdir)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir
os.makedirs(path)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djangorestframework-3.6.3.dist-info'
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

And when I try above command with sudo , getting following error

Collecting djangorestframework
Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f0011a7bf10>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',)': /simple/djangorestframework/
Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f0013a4fe50>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',)': /simple/djangorestframework/
Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f0011788050>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',)': /simple/djangorestframework/

And When I tried to upgrade pip

pip install --upgrade pip

again I'm getting Permission denied error and when I run it with sudo , getting following error

Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7eff30658ed0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',)': /simple/pip/
Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7eff3262cf10>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',)': /simple/pip/

What should I do ? Is there any other way to install djangorestframework ?

Please help me out this :(

Answer 1

Try using a virtualenv.

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
virtualenv myvenvname // create ur env
source myvenvname/bin/activate // activate it if it isnt already activated

Install all of your packages inside your virtual environment to avoid conflicts with other packages, this might solve ur problem.

One other thing is, you're trying to install it using python 2.7 as I've seen. Is this the version that you want? If you want to install it using python 3 do:

pip3 install djangorestframework