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WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: Anaconda Python Pip Installs and Upgrade

Bydatapandasadmin January 6, 2017January 6, 2017

I was trying to run a pip install ( pip install scikit-learn) and I encountered this error:

C:\Users\adaba>pip install -U scikit-learn

Collecting scikit-learn

Using cached scikit_learn-0.18.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

Installing collected packages: scikit-learn

Found existing installation: scikit-learn 0.17.1

DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (scikit-learn) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.

Uninstalling scikit-learn-0.17.1:

Exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 215, in main

status = self.run(options, args)

File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 317, in run

prefix=options.prefix_path,

File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 736, in install

requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)

File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 742, in uninstall

paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)

File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_uninstall.py", line 115, in remove

renames(path, new_path)

File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\__init__.py", line 267, in renames

shutil.move(old, new)

File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda2\lib\shutil.py", line 303, in move

os.unlink(src)

WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'c:\\program files\\anaconda2\\lib\\site-packages\\scikit_learn-0.17.1-py2.7.egg-info'

This is the bit we are interested in ”

1	WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'c:\\program files\\anaconda2\\lib\\site-packages\\scikit_learn-0.17.1-py2.7.egg-info'

”

if you look at the error it states “WindowsError”

Hence the Access Denied error is due to not having the right level of privileges to carry out the installs or upgrade.

SOLUTION

Open Command Prompt as Administrator (with Administrator rights)

Now run your pip installs and the windowsError should disappear and installation go through

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd\

C:\>Python

Python 2.7.12 |Anaconda 4.2.0 (64-bit)| (default, Jun 29 2016, 11:07:13) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

Anaconda is brought to you by Continuum Analytics.

Please check out: http://continuum.io/thanks and https://anaconda.org

Could not open PYTHONSTARTUP

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\adaba\\Anaconda3\\envs\\gl-env\\Lib\\site-packages\\spyderlib\\scientific_startup.py'

>>>

C:\>pip install -U scikit-learn

Collecting scikit-learn

Using cached scikit_learn-0.18.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

Installing collected packages: scikit-learn

Found existing installation: scikit-learn 0.17.1

Uninstalling scikit-learn-0.17.1:

Successfully uninstalled scikit-learn-0.17.1

Successfully installed scikit-learn-0.18.1

Hope this helps you 🙂

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2 Comments

Aneesh says:

August 22, 2017 at 4:20 pm

I am running as administrator. Still I have this error.

File “c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\retrying.py”, line 200, in call
attempt = Attempt(fn(*args, **kwargs), attempt_number, False)
File “c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\__init__.py”, line 102, in rmtree
onerror=rmtree_errorhandler)
File “c:\python27\lib\shutil.py”, line 252, in rmtree
onerror(os.remove, fullname, sys.exc_info())
File “c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\__init__.py”, line 110, in rmtree_errorhandler
if os.stat(path).st_mode & stat.S_IREAD:
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: ‘c:\\users\\XXXX\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-vawmxw-unpack\\pytz-2017.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl’

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1. datapandasadmin says:
  
  August 22, 2017 at 5:00 pm
  
  Hi Aneesh,
  Can you check that the file is not being accessed or opened by any other program.
  Sometimes the file might be accessed by another program without you realising. A simple case of restart and running command prompt as an administrator might help solve it
  
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