I just tried to install Fabric on my Mac, and I was thrown this error after using pip install fabric
Installing collected packages: fabric, paramiko, pycrypto, ecdsa
Cleaning up...
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 275, in run
requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1371, in install
requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 655, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 885, in move_wheel_files
pycompile=self.pycompile,
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 209, in move_wheel_files
clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 196, in clobber
os.makedirs(destsubdir)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/fabfile'
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/michaelsnowden/Library/Logs/pip.log
Here is the entire debug log
What does this mean, and why am I getting this error?