python system_error ai_generated true

WARNING: Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/.cache/pip/http-v2/...'

ID: python/pip-cache-write-permission-denied

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80%Fix Rate
88%Confidence
0Evidence
2024-06-04First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
3.8 active — — —
3.9 active — — —
3.10 active — — —
3.11 active — — —
3.12 active — — —

Root Cause

pip is running as a different user than the one that owns the pip cache directory, or the cache was created by root and now a non-root user tries to write to it.

generic

中文

pip 运行的用户与拥有 pip 缓存目录的用户不同，或缓存由 root 创建，现在非 root 用户尝试写入。

Workarounds

  1. 90% success 
    Fix ownership or use a user-local cache:
  sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.cache/pip
Or:
  export PIP_CACHE_DIR=$HOME/.cache/pip-user
  mkdir -p $PIP_CACHE_DIR
  pip install <package>
  2. 85% success 
    Bypass the cache entirely for this install:
  pip install --no-cache-dir <package>

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. 60% fail

    Running as root fixes the immediate error but pollutes site-packages and can break the system Python.

  2. 50% fail

    World-writable cache is a security risk and may still fail if the parent dir is not writable.