Python: permission denied when extracting tar.gz

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I would like to extract all tar.gz inside a folder but I am getting [Errno 13] Permission denied. I have been through different posts related to the problem but nothing helps. Even extracting a specific member inside tar.gz gives same error. Can someone help what could be wrong?

I want to create a script for unzip (.tar.gz) file via (Python)

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tar = tarfile.open(fname, "r:gz")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()

Well obviously you don't have the permissions to create new files. What are your directory permissions? — MechMK1, Dec 24 '17 at 16:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 24 '17 at 15:39

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Are you running this as a local user? Is this running on Unix/Linux? Does the account running the python script have the appropriate rights to the folder you are attempting to write to?

answered Dec 24 '17 at 15:39

Dan S.

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This is on Mac OSX. I have running this script on same machine in the past. Now I want to add capability to extract tar.gz in the same script – koolmrsam Dec 24 '17 at 15:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '22 at 13:39

It happens when you do not have permission to the tmp folder on your system. Make a temporary directory in your home directory :

mkdir tmp_local

Try to change the tmp directory to your local folder using the following command:

export TMPDIR='/local_home/ah32097/tmp_local'

after this you can directly pip install the python package in tar.gz format.

Python: permission denied when extracting tar.gz

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