So I have a virtual environment set up in VS Code. I recently learned that it's better this way because it doesn't interfere with my global python data. The problem is that I'm still getting issues. When I try to install a package in that environment using pip, it gives a message like this and it doesn't install:
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: {PACKAGE NAME} in c:\users\lavaa\appdata\roaming\python\python311\site-packages
I activated the environment and selected it as my interpreter before this.
This confuses me because why should it care about that python directory when I'm in a virtual environment? It's not already installed in the virtual environment, so there should be no problem, right? I didn't want to mess anything up, so here I am.
One last thing: When I went to the appdata directory to find the issue, I saw that the package was installed there. I don't know why it didn't get placed in the virtual environment folder.
If you use pip command to install, the package will be installed in pyenv.
If you are using conda environment you can use the following command to install:
conda install packageName
You can read document about environment for more information.
I'm not able to install any library in virtual environment. It gives me the following error:
venv) D:\python projects>pip install pandas
Cannot open D:\python projects\venv\Scripts\pip-script.py
However if i get out of venv and try to install it globally it gets finished without any error.
but I don't know the reason of the error. Another question is that if i have to upgrade the pip version, do i have to upgrade it separately first globally then in my venv? Also Is there any way to use globally installed library in venv?
Fixed this by rebuilding my venv, a bit destructive but you can pip freeze > for the packages your using before hand then pip install -r to restore them to your new venv
I have a new Macbook - a user installed it, and then I installed a new user (mine), granted admin privileges and deleted the old one. I am on OS Catalina.
Since the installation I've been having several permission problems.
VSCode can't find Jupyter Notebook, pip installs packages at ~/Library/Python/3.7/site-packages.
When I do which python3 I get usr/bin/python3.
When I do pip3 install <package> I get: Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable And then it says it has already been installed, even though I can't access it when I do import <package>.
It's seems clear that this is a permission problem, pip can't install to the "base" python, and them python can't find what I've installed into ~/Library/Python/3.7/site-packages.
I've tried reinstalling the OS, but since I haven't done a clean install, it didn't change anything.
What am I missing?
How exactly can I fix permissions? Where do I want packages to be installed (venv sure, but some packages I want global (like jupyter).
As #TomdeGeus mentioned in the comments, this command works for me:
Python 3:
python3 -m pip install [package_name]
Python 2:
python -m pip install [package_name]
It's best to not use the system-provided Python directly. Leave that one alone since the OS can change it in undesired ways, as you experienced.
The best practice is to configure your own Python version(s) and manage them on a per-project basis using virtualenv (for Python 2) or venv, possibly via poetry, (for Python 3). This eliminates all dependency on the system-provided Python version, and also isolates each project from other projects on the machine.
Each project can have a different Python point version if needed, and gets its own site_packages directory so pip-installed libraries can also have different versions by project. This approach is a major problem-avoider.
python3.7 -m pip install [package_name]
(you should use the version that you have, of course)
solved it for me.
The most voted answer python3 -m pip install [package_name] does not help me here.
In my case, this was caused by a conflict with the dominating 3.6 version that was also installed as a default. You might ask yourself why you have 3.6 on your system, you will most probably not use that version now. The reason is that 3.6 is used as an independent default python version for many package installers. Those installers do not want to check which individual version you use and whether that fits, they just use 3.6 as a default, if you like it or not.
Here is a proof by example --upgrade pip:
pip3 install --upgrade pip
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: pip in
/home/USERNAME/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (20.3.1)
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: pip in
/home/USERNAME/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (20.3.1)
python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ab/11/2dc62c5263d9eb322f2f028f7b56cd9d096bb8988fcf82d65fa2e4057afe/pip-20.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip Successfully installed pip-20.3.1
I'm using Anaconda on Ubuntu and had the same problem.I fixed it by the following steps:
deactivating current environment
conda deactivate
Then, the base environment activates. I deactivated the base conda environment too. To do so, I used conda deactivate again.
Finally, I activate my project environment directly (instead of activating from the base environment) by the following command. Afterward, I installed the intended package successfully and worked perfectly.
conda activate myenv
pip install somepackage
sudo pip install
Worked for me. But pip install is not recommended to be run with sudo. The issue I was facing on BIGSUR was, it was using system python. Once I Installed python 3.9 using
brew install python#3.9
Then pip worked fine
For readers who thought themselves accidentally update system pip:
If you saw this info in your terminal output:
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
then you will be fine. Use the pip3 you just updated to run:
pyenv global system # since I use pyenv
pip3 uninstall pip # this one does the trick
Then you can check again pip3 --version will point to the original old (XCode/System-)pip. E.g. (2022/2/28):
pip 20.2.3 from /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)
It occurs with me when I the virtual enviroment folder name was : venv.
in this case, It gives errors like :
No module pip
Default folder is unwritable
renaming the folder solve the proplem.
Check on the command line "which python" to see if it is the value you expect.
If you have a virtual environment activated, check /venv/bin/activate to see the value of VIRTUAL_ENV= and make sure it is the correct path . The path may be wrong if you renamed or moved the project. If the path is wrong, you can delete the venv and make a new one.
For me, none of the suggestions worked so I had to delete the current virtual environment folder venv and recreate it using one of the following commands:
python -m venv venv
python3 -m venv venv
Check the source of pip on Ubuntu 20.04
which pip
returns the correct path
/home/myname/fullstack/person_api/venv/bin/pip
UPDATE
I presume that some might encounter this problem because they set python path as environmental variable like this in ~/.bashrc:
python=/path/to/python
which you should not be doing! Instead we could do:
py=python
PATH=/path/to/python:$PATH
I bumped into this issue specifically because of this!
Had this same issue on a fresh install of Debian 9.12.
Rebooting my server solved the issue.
In my case on Linux, the ownership of the conda env directory had changed to another Linux user (long story), and so the the normal site-packages was not writeable due to a permissions issue.
The solution was to change ownership back to the user doing pip install.
I met exactly the same issue.
I just type sudo python3.8 -m pip install .... and the error disappeared.
If I remove the sudo, issue remains.
For those running on a Pi, that accidentally installed pip as root. Just chown the lib folder to the pi user:
sudo chown -R pi:pi /usr/local/lib/python3.9/
in my case python3 -m pip install [package_name] did not solve that.
in my case, it was a problem related to other processes occupying the directory.
I restart Pycharm and close any other program that might occupy this folder, and reinstalled the package in site-packages directory successfully.
When this problem occurred to me I have tried all the mentioned approaches but they don't seem to work.
Instead, restarting Python language server in my VSCode did the job - my SimPy package is now found. On Mac it is Cmd+Shift+P and select "Python: Restart Language Server".
Had similar issue on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS in VirtualBox, but none of the suggestions here worked for me.
I was trying to install open3d in a venv and every time I was getting
"Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable"
which at first I didn't even noticed. open3d was always being installed in /usr/bin/python3 environment. I've restarted the VM but without luck, so I guess the problem was not just missing write access.
So in VS Code, which was using the venv, importing open3d was not possible. But testing from terminal from the activated venv with python3 -c "import open3d as o3d; print(o3d.__version__)" was working fine and that confused me totally. I even broke my system pip installation using sudo, see further below if you want to know how to fix it.
Anyhow, the solution to my problem was to explicitly point to the python3 file in the venv where I wanted to install the package:
venv/bin/python3 -m pip install open3d
So I was testing out everything and eventually installed with sudo: sudo pip3 install open3d. This of course didn't solved the problem and open3d was still missing in the venv. Even worse, I got the message:
"WARNING: You are using pip version 21.3.1; however, version 22.0.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command."
So I did it but with sudo, updating the system pip and then found out here that this is not good:
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
Following an advice here, I tried to revert to original version, only then pip3 broke:
sudo pip3 uninstall pip
sudo pip3 --version
sudo: pip3: command not found
The apt package was still there:
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-pip is already the newest version
(20.0.2-5ubuntu1.6).
So I had to reinstalled to fix the problem:
sudo apt-get remove python3-pip
sudo apt install python3-pip
Maybe you have python, python3, pip or pip3 aliased. In that case pip might not work well anymore, as the alias isn't always available and so pip/pip3 might resolve python/python3 differently compared to in your terminal.
That could give rise to pip/pip3 trying to install in the system python, and that could give rise to your error.
I tried ever single recommendation described here. In every instance, I get the exact same result: SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<stdin>, line 1)
I'm not sure who designed the system like this, but it seems basically useless, based on my experience so far. Either create a system that works, or don't create anything at all.
I want to install a few modules - the problem here is, i already have those modules in a virtual enviroment, so i get the
Requirement already satisfied error.
How do i avoid this? Is there a way to force PIP to download a package, even if it already exists somewhere on my system? And why does this error even come up when im PIPing outside of the venv?
I could paste the modules manually into my normal python folder, but i thought that there has to be a simple method - of course, i could just unmount the entire hard drive where the venv is located on...
a. If you want to reinstall a package you can always uninstall the package and reinstall it with the following.
pip uninstall requests
pip install requests
b. If you are seeing "Requirement already satisfied" inside of your vanilla python installation then it must already be installed there. You can check the packages that are installed by running the following. (you can run this on your virtual environment and your vanilla python installation to compare the results)
pip freeze
defusedxml==0.5.0
isodate==0.6.0
lxml==4.2.1
pkgconfig==1.3.1
python3-saml==1.4.1
six==1.11.0
xmlsec==1.3.3
I am trying to install flake8 package using pip3 and it seems that it refuses to install because is already installed in one local location.
How can I force it to install globally (system level)?
pip3 install flake8
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): flake8 in ./.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages
Please note that I would prefer a generic solution (that should work on Debian, OS X maybe even Windows), one that should be used on any platform so I don't want to specify the destination myself.
For some weird reason it behaves like I already specified --user which in my case I didn't.
The only way I was able to install a package globally was to first remove it and install it again after this. Somehow it seems that pip (8.1.1) refuses to install a package globally if it exists locally.
Disclaimer: No virtual environments were used or harmed during the experiments.
Why don't you try sudo with the H flag? This should do the trick.
sudo -H pip install flake8
A regular sudo pip install flake8 will try to use your own home directory. The -H instructs it to use the system's home directory. More info at https://stackoverflow.com/a/43623102/
Maybe --force-reinstall would work, otherwise --ignore-installed should do the trick.
Where does pip installations happen in python?
I will give a windows solution which I was facing and took a while to solve.
First of all, in windows (I will be taking Windows as the OS here), if you do pip install <package_name>, it will be by default installed globally (if you have not activated a virtual enviroment).
Once you activate a virtual enviroment and you are inside it, all pip installations will be inside that virtual enviroment.
pip is installing the said packages but not I cannot use them?
For this pip might be giving you a warning that the pip executables like pip3.exe, pip.exe are not on your path variable.
For this you might add this path ( usually - C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Roaming\Programs\Python\ ) to your enviromental variables.
After this restart your cmd, and now try to use your installed python package. It should work now.
For windows 10:
Installing Python for all users is straight forward since when you install you have to click a checkbox for all users.
In order to install modules globally under C:\Program Files\Python310\Lib\site-packages
start CMD prompt as administrator and then install modules
python -m pip install selenium
For the Windows case:
Are you using virtualenv? If yes, deactivate the virtualenv. If you are not using a venv, the package should have already be installed on system level (system-wide). In that case, try to upgrade the package.
pip install flake8 --upgrade
I actually don‘t see your issue. Globally is any package which is in your python3 path‘s site package folder.
If you want to use it just locally then you must configure a virtualenv and reinstall the packages with an activated virtual environment.