Permission denied error when installing django

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OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/pyshared/Django-1.4.1.egg-info'

Storing complete log in /home/lightning/.pip/pip.log
lightning@rigel5:~$ 
OS: Ubuntu 12.10 32 bit 2GB RAM

Trying to install this via tutorial returns this error.

======== WARNING! ========
You have just installed Django over top of an existing installation, without removing it first. Because of this, your install may now include extraneous files from a previous version that have since been removed from Django. This is known to cause a variety of problems. You should manually remove the /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django directory and re-install Django. — lightning, Mar 17 '13 at 21:36

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '13 at 21:46

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sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django
sudo pip install Django==1.5

answered Mar 17 '13 at 21:46

Eric Carvalho

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lightning@rigel5:~$ sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-package/django lightning@rigel5:~$ sudo pip install Django==1.5 Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Django==1.5 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages Cleaning up... – lightning Mar 17 '13 at 21:48
I guess this worked.. would like to confirm before admitting victory on this one – lightning Mar 17 '13 at 21:49
import django print(django.get_version())

1.5 its official. declaring victory. Eric, you da man. ty
– lightning Mar 17 '13 at 21:53
I think it's properly installed. Make a test to verify if it works. – Eric Carvalho Mar 17 '13 at 21:53
yup it was safely imported into the interpreter and returned the correct version. Thanks again Eric. Now, to glue my hair back in ;) – lightning Mar 17 '13 at 21:55

Permission denied error when installing django

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