Installation fails on system-wide install on os.x

[ralphschindler]

Installation fails on system-wide install on os.x

[jamyouss]

I had the same issue. The solution of @mikeecb worked for me 👍

[ralphschindler]

Yeah, those files can't be removed/updated b/c they are under the protection of SIP in os.x. It looks as though I've previously installed httpie via homebrew.

Update: I will try this. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/209572/how-to-use-pip-after-the-el-capitan-max-os-x-upgrade

[eliangcs]

@voidpirate this is a great idea! I'll probably add it in README. I was not aware of --user option as I use pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv personally.

[georules]

sudo pip install http-prompt --ignore-installed six

worked for me. I assume the --user option would work in combination with the ignore-installed as well.

[eliangcs]

Did you use sudo?

[georules]

I had (perhaps) a related problem, OSX 10.11.4. I first did pip install without sudo (whoops) and then did it with sudo and got the following:

Collecting http-prompt
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): click>=5.0 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from http-prompt)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): parsimonious>=0.6.2 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from http-prompt)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): httpie>=0.9.0 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from http-prompt)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Pygments>=2.1.0 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from http-prompt)
Collecting six>=1.10.0 (from http-prompt)
  Downloading six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting prompt-toolkit>=0.60 (from http-prompt)
  Downloading prompt_toolkit-1.0.0-py2-none-any.whl (223kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 225kB 2.2MB/s
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests>=2.3.0 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from httpie>=0.9.0->http-prompt)
Collecting wcwidth (from prompt-toolkit>=0.60->http-prompt)
  Downloading wcwidth-0.1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: six, wcwidth, prompt-toolkit, http-prompt
  Found existing installation: six 1.4.1
    DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (six) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.
    Uninstalling six-1.4.1:
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 317, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 736, in install
    requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 742, in uninstall
    paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 115, in remove
    renames(path, new_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 267, in renames
    shutil.move(old, new)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 302, in move
    copy2(src, real_dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 131, in copy2
    copystat(src, dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 103, in copystat
    os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/pip-YTkss5-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'

[eliangcs]

Try deleting the problematic directory and re-install again with sudo:

sudo rm -rf /tmp/pip-YTkss5-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info
sudo pip install http-prompt

You may have to change the directory permission with chmod if you can't delete it.

[ralphschindler]

[eliangcs]

Try uninstalling six first:

sudo pip uninstall six
sudo rm -rf <the problematic egg-info directory>
sudo pip install http-prompt

[ralphschindler]

I'm not sure what six is, but it is definitely the problem. The uninstall script for that package won't run correctly. Is there a way to manually remove six?

[eliangcs]

You can go to the site-packages directory and delete all the stuffs related to six. On your Mac computer, the site-packages directory is probably at: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python

[0verbyte]

Why not use --user when installing? You should never have to run sudo.

pip install --user http-prompt, this will encapsulate the package only in the user directory, instead of system wide.

[mikeecb]

@ralphschindler Not sure if solved, but this pip / OS X error with El Capitan. A possible solution from stackoverflow:

pip install --ignore-installed six

[ralphschindler]

--ignore-installed works. I would add this to the readme. Thanks.

[eliangcs]

I'll create an FAQ section and add this to it. 👍