OS X 10.11 El Capitan pip install issues, root SIP problems?

[shaun10]

Anyone else experiencing this? Seems the install no longer works properly after upgrade.

I guess the gist is that no user -- not even root -- can write to /usr, /bin, /System, and /sbin or debug protected processes.

Anyone have work around suggestions? Is the problem related to SIP changes and El Capitan?

[yan12125]

As of now you can install the package to the local user directory:

$ pip install --user youtube-dl

The script will reside at ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin/youtube-dl.

[yan12125]

Looks like a pip bug. I've reported it to pypa/pip#3177.

[rishigb]

I did something rather simple (maybe stupid but it worked). I just added the path to .bash_profile. This is how it looks oh and it works!

cd /Users/username

vim .bash_profile

Add the following line:

alias youtube-dl='/Users/userName/Library/python/2.7/bin/youtube-dl'

source ~/.bash_profile

Maybe give this is a shot, until everything else is fixed? Let me know if this was helpful.