I want to install some Python package using pip. I get a surprising error:

error: could not create '/home/brian/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyDSTool': Permission denied



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Command "/home/brian/anaconda/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-EIkik9/pydstool/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('

', '

'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-ipWEV7-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-EIkik9/pydstool

Okay, so apparently, the command doesn't have permission to create a folder in my home directory. Already, this is troublesome to me! I have been having issues with this, and am not sure what to do...

Anyway, doing sudo pip install <package of interest> also doesn't work because:

brian@brian-linux:~$ sudo pip install pydstool

[sudo] password for brian: 

sudo: pip: command not found

So, what now? I would rather not dig into sudoers and manually add in the bin path that sudo doesn't have access to. I would rather that my home directory behave as normal. Perhaps setting up my memory drives (with / on the SSD, and /home mounted on the HDD) was a very bad idea?