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I am trying to install BeautifulSoup on my macOS. While installing i m getting below.

And also I tried with python setup.py install, but getting same error

Please help me to resolve this

bash-3.2$ easy_install /Users/SJV/Downloads/beautifulsoup4-4.4.1/beautifulsoup4.egg-info
error: can't create or remove files in install directory

The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the installation directory:

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/test-easy-install-620.pth'

The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or the distutils default setting) was:

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory? If the installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need to sign in as the administrator or "root" account. If you do not have administrative access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different installation directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH environment variable.

For information on other options, you may wish to consult the documentation at:

https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/easy_install.html

Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.

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Are you using root? Try:

sudo pip install beautifulsoup4  # will ask your sudo password

Or login as root before run pip install beautifulsoup4.

Also, install it in virtualenv or this way can without root permission(if you don't have root permission).

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