error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv_support': Permission denied

Question

I am using ubuntu 12.04 and I am trying to pip install virtualenv but suddenly I got this error.

samuel@sampc:~$ pip install virtualenv
Downloading/unpacking         


        

Answer 1

use

sudo pip install virtualenv

You have a permission denied error. This states your current user does not have the root permissions.So run the command as a super user.