Upgrading setuptools on OSX El Capitan

Question

I\'m trying to upgrade setuptools. Well actually I\'m trying to upgrade ansible but it\'s trying to upgrade setuptools and failing. Trying to do it myself also fails. Even t

Answer 1

This happens due to the System Integrity Protection introduced in OS X El Capitan.

Adding --user python to the command allowed this to work.

In other words

pip install --upgrade setuptools --user python