Unable to Install Pylint in windows - python?

Question

I am new to python, I installed python on windows in the following directory C:\Program Files\Python36, I am using vscode as IDE when I trying to run the following command in integrated terminal

"C:\Program Files\Python36\python" -m pip install pylint

Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 342, in run prefix=options.prefix_path, File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 784, in install **kwargs File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 851, in install self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix) File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files isolated=self.isolated, File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files clobber(source, lib_dir, True) File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 316, in clobber ensure_dir(destdir) File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\pip\utils__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir os.makedirs(path) File "c:\program files\python36\lib\os.py", line 220, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'c:\program files\python36\Lib\site-packages\colorama'

How can i resolve this issue?

Answer 1

This is a permission issues:

PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

You need to run the command as administrator. You can Right Click on the command prompt (You can use for example cmd.exe or powershell.exe) and click "Run as administrator". Then execute "C:\Program Files\Python36\python" -m pip install pylint

It should solve your issue