Errno 13 when installing python package
Question: I'm pretty new to programming and I've just downloaded Ubuntu onto my laptop.
The problem I'm having is when I try to install the python package tabulate
(<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate>) from the terminal it displays an
error telling me I don't have permission to do so.

    
    
        kai@kai-HP-Notebook:~$ pip install tabulate
    Downloading/unpacking tabulate
      Downloading tabulate-0.7.5.tar.gz
      Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_kai/tabulate/setup.py) egg_info for package tabulate
    
    Installing collected packages: tabulate
      Running setup.py install for tabulate
        error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tabulate.py'
        Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_kai/tabulate/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-If5xKf-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
        running install
    
    running build
    
    running build_py
    
    creating build
    
    creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
    
    copying tabulate.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
    
    running install_lib
    
    copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/tabulate.py -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
    
    error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tabulate.py'
    
    ----------------------------------------
    Cleaning up...
    Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_kai/tabulate/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-If5xKf-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_kai/tabulate
    Storing debug log for failure in /home/kai/.pip/pip.log
    

What I am doing wrong? I'm sure its quite an easy problem to get around.


Answer: Answered by @JRodDynamite: Use

    
    
    sudo pip install tabulate
    

