I recommend installing Anaconda. http://continuum.io/downloads. It already comes with SymPy, it doesn't require any root permissions to install, and you will avoid potentially breaking your system Python, which it sounds like you are likely to do (never mess with anything in the /System directory unless you really know what you are doing).
Aaron Meurer On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Zane DuFour <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone! I'm trying to install sympy with the > > > python setup.py install > > command, but I'm running into an error message: > > > error: could not create > '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/share': Permission > denied > > > I was previously getting the error message > > > > error: could not create '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/sympy': > Permission denied > > > But didn't get it after giving myself read-write privileges to the > site-packages folder (this is on my laptop, so I'm running this as admin). > After getting this new error message I tried to deal with it by giving > myself read-write privileges for the Versions folder, but it's not working. > > > Also, I don't actually have a ~/Versions/2.7 directory. The only folder I > have in the Versions directory is 3.3. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/f26d7a99-2d5a-4b87-9acf-a7ad13bf8ed6%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6J6FT9EuR4su%2Bw8daOz0rSZgxb4S6CHDi8ATZnbLoW1JA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
