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I cant't install matplotlib. I'm using a raspberry pi 3b.

I am using this 

pip --no-cache-dir install matplotlib

to install matplotlib. At the start it is all ok. But in last part, I get this error:

Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", 
line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
prefix=options.prefix_path,
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", 
line 784, in install
**kwargs
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
isolated=self.isolated,
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 
345, in move_wheel_files
clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 
316, in clobber
ensure_dir(destdir)
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", 
line 83, in ensure_dir
os.makedirs(path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
packages/backports.functools_lru_cache-1.5.dist-info'
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Use sudo -H pip install matplotlib if you want to install it system wide or create a virualenv and use pip install matplotlib to install it on a virtualenv.

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