I'm running python 2.7 on Windows 7, setup via Anaconda. I wanted to update my matplotlib by running pip install matplotlib --upgrade and received the following error message:
C:\Windows\system32>pip install matplotlib Downloading/unpacking matplotlib Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): numpy>=1.6 in c:\anaco nda\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib) Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pyparsing>=1.5.6 in c: \anaconda\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib) Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): python-dateutil in c:\ anaconda\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib) Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pytz in c:\anaconda\li b\site-packages (from matplotlib) Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six>=1.4 in c:\anacond a\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib) Installing collected packages: matplotlib Cleaning up... Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 122, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 283, in run
requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_p ath) File"C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 1435, in install requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 671, in install self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 901, in move_wheel_files
pycompile=self.pycompile, File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 215, inmove_wheel_fil es clobber(source, lib_dir, True) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 209, in clobber shutil.copy2(srcfile, destfile) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\shutil.py", line 130, in copy2 copyfile(src, dst) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Anaconda\Lib\site-packages\matplo tlib\ft2font.pyd'
I gave myself 'full control' by right clicking on the Anaconda folder, going to the security tab and changing the permissions. I also restarted my command window as an administrator. (The account I use is an administrator, but in light of: What precisely does 'Run as administrator' do? I thought it couldn't hurt)
Despite these two steps I'm still getting an IOError: [Errno13] on the cleaning up step. I can no longer import matplotlib. I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling matplotlib. I hope to avoid doing that for Anaconda.
