Error installing package with executable

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Environment

  • pip version: 20.2.4
  • Python version: 3.9.0
  • OS: Windows 10 Build 20236

Description Attempting to install pip-run fails.

Expected behavior The installation of this package should succeed or a more informative error message should be provided.

How to Reproduce I’ve installed Python with chocolatey (choco install python), upgraded pip with py -m pip install -U pip, then:

$ py -m pip install pip-run
Collecting pip-run
  Using cached pip_run-8.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (14 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: pip>=19.3 in c:\python39\lib\site-packages (from pip-run) (20.2.4)
Installing collected packages: pip-run
  WARNING: Failed to write executable - trying to use .deleteme logic
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'C:\\Python39\\Scripts\\pip-run.exe' -> 'C:\\Python3
9\\Scripts\\pip-run.exe.deleteme'

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  • State:open
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:12
  • Comments:14 (4 by maintainers)

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jaracocommented, Oct 20, 2020

The issue appears to be a permissions one. The error only occurs when running not as Administrator.

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symant233commented, Oct 21, 2021

You can add your User in C:\Python39 folder security pannel with full access permission to solve this problem. @jaraco

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