I followed this link to install Gittle library. But when I run a command
$ pip install gittle
I get an error:
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools,
tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_victor
/gittle/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open',
open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))"
install --record /tmp/pip-aoyPEt-record/install-record.txt
--single-version-externally- managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_victor/gittle Storing debug log for failure in
/home/victor/.pip/pip.log
My Python version is 2.7.6.
You Need Root Privileges
Since you are installing sistem-wide libraries, these usually will be placed in directories which need root privileges for writing in them (for example anything under /usr/lib). Hence you need to either run the command as root:
# pip install gittle
Or you can use sudo:
$ sudo pip install gittle
What About Virtual Environments?
The more efficient/pythonic way to go about this would be using virtual environments. This is especially true if you are installing project-specific libraries, which will most probably not be required by other projects. Another classical application of virtual environments is when you are working on a machine on which you don't have root privileges, say at university for example.
Once you set up a virtual environment, if you place it in a directory on which you have writing rights, you can run:
$ pip install gittle
to install gittle in this case.
