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Trying to install Kivy Designer from: https://github.com/kivy/kivy-designer

Its instructions use this command:

pip install -U watchdog pygments docutils jedi gitpython six kivy-garden

But I get an error message in console that it could not create certain directories\files because "permission denied". How can I grant it permission?

Matt
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    try adding `sudo` in-front of your command – Severus Tux Jun 03 '16 at 04:17
  • A better way is to create a virtualenv and install inside the virtualenv. – edwinksl Jun 03 '16 at 04:24
  • Thank you, that worked perfectly! I will also look into the virtualenv, albeit, I already have it installed on my system without virtualenv. – Matt Jun 03 '16 at 04:42
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    @Matt Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/q/21055859/486919 for a discussion of why using `sudo` with `pip` is generally a bad idea. – edwinksl Jun 03 '16 at 05:09
  • @edwinskl Thank you, that was convincing enough. I am very new to both Ubuntu and programming, is there a general guide to using virtualenv that you would recommend? – Matt Jun 03 '16 at 08:17
  • So, I intalled virtualenv, made a folder called "environments", created a new environment there, activated it, tried to complete the installation within virtualenv but it also requires sudo with pip.... Am I missing something? – Matt Jun 08 '16 at 02:30

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