Conda update <package>: Permission issues

I have a frequent issue with python packages, in this case with conda updating packages:

ipython update

user:~$ conda update ipython

Proceed ([y]/n)? y

Fetching packages ... Error: Could not open u'/home/user/anaconda/pkgs/ipython-2.3.1-py27_0.tar.bz2.part' for writing (seek).00 B/s

ipython notebook update

user:~$ pip install "ipython[notebook]"

--upgrade Downloading/unpacking ipython[notebook] from https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/i/ipython/ipython-2.3.1-py27-none-any.whl#md5=14b9c7c5280ded28777559c434947573 Downloading ipython-2.3.1-py27-none-any.whl (2.8MB): 2.8MB downloaded ...

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipython-1.2.1.egg-info'

Storing debug log for failure in /home/user/.pip/pip.log

conda update setuptools

user:~$ conda update setuptools

Fetching package metadata: .. ... Proceed ([y]/n)? y

Fetching packages ... Error: Could not open u'/home/user/anaconda/pkgs/setuptools-7.0-py27_0.tar.bz2.part' for writing (seek).0 B/s user:~$Fetching package metadata: .. ...

Possible Hint:

This could be related to other issue accessing these packages from python script:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27413162/some-python-modules-available-only-with-sudo-others-only-without

Any ideas?

Solution 1:

Have you tried to reinstall it? It worked directly for me on one machine and on a VM I had to do a link from ~/anaconda/bin/conda to /usr/local/bin to get it to work. You can do a hardlink with sudo ln ~/anaconda/bin/conda /usr/local/bin/