Mojave build needed sudo to install
paulwhitby opened this issue · 1 comments
paulwhitby commented
Not an issue but an observation.
First, many thanks for providing these custom builds!
I have MacOS Mojave, & the specified versions of clang & python. pip3 install as specified failed, but sudo sorted it. I don't know if that was right but it certainly works fine now.
lakshayg commented
This is perfectly normal. pip defaults to installing python packages to a system directory (such as /usr/local/lib/python3.4). This requires root access. You can use the --user flag to make pip install packages in your home directory instead, which doesn't require any special privileges.
pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade "Download URL" --user
You can run the following command to see where --user flag installs the package.
python -c "import site; print(site.USER_SITE)"