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

It's because the virtual environment viarable has not been installed.

Try this:

sudo pip install virtualenv
virtualenv --python python3 env
source env/bin/activate
pip install 

or

sudo pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv --python python3 env
source env/bin/activate
pip3 install