Using pip in pythonbrew

Question

I have started using pythonbrew to manage different Python installs. The main reason I wanted to do this is to install third party modules without affecting my system's Python install.

Fore example I thought I would install the requests library using:

pip install requests

However this causes an error saying:

error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests': Permission denied

Obviously I don't want to install it to the system's Python which is Python 2.7.3. I did have to install pip with my package manager and the resultant path is /usr/bin/pip.

How can I use pip to install to my pythonbrew installs? (My current pythonbrew Python version is 3.3.0) Am I missing something?

Answer 1

I found a solution. I uninstalled my Python 3.3.0 by issuing pythonbrew uninstall 3.3.0. Then I installed it again with pythonbrew install --configure="--with-zlib" 3.3.0. This allowed pip to install and thus now I can use it to install to this Python version.

Maybe somebody else can find this helpful, cheers!