Error when install in Ubuntu 12.04

[lucassmagal]

Hello,

I'm trying to install httpie through "pip install -U httpie", and that is what happening:

Downloading/unpacking httpie
  Downloading httpie-0.2.7.tar.gz
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 104, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 245, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 985, in prepare_files
    self.unpack_url(url, location, self.is_download)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1109, in unpack_url
    retval = unpack_http_url(link, location, self.download_cache, self.download_dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/download.py", line 456, in unpack_http_url
    unpack_file(temp_location, location, content_type, link)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/util.py", line 494, in unpack_file
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/util.py", line 408, in untar_file
    os.makedirs(location)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/lsmagalhaes/build/httpie'
Storing complete log in /home/lsmagalhaes/.pip/pip.log

Any ideas?

[jkbrzt]

It's strange that ~/build isn't writeable by you. You can try to delete that directory (unless you've put there some important files yourself) and retry the installation.

But most likely you'll still need to use sudo pip install -U httpie if you are installing it system-wide.

[lucassmagal]

That's really strange, because I'm trying to install inside a virtualenv, but only with sudo it worked =S Thank you, @jkbr !

[balping]

@lucassmagal Thanks for sharing this, I had the same problem and I had no idea why it wasn't working