Install Plotly ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:

Question

I am new to python and I started to learn python online using the web, I started with the code below using pip. I am getting error as shown below:

''''! pip3 install plotly''''

Collecting plotly

  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/15/90/918bccb0ca60dc6d126d921e2c67126d75949f5da777e6b18c51fb12603d/plotly-4.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl

Requirement already satisfied: six in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from plotly) (1.14.0)

Collecting retrying>=1.3.3 (from plotly)

  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/44/ef/beae4b4ef80902f22e3af073397f079c96969c69b2c7d52a57ea9ae61c9d/retrying-1.3.3.tar.gz

Installing collected packages: retrying, plotly

  Running setup.py install for retrying ... error

    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:

     command: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/python3.8 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/xz/w52k1b9n2935_w13djkjn9pc0000gn/T/pip-install-br5inttz/retrying/setup.py'"'"'; _file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/xz/w52k1b9n2935_w13djkjn9pc0000gn/T/pip-install-br5inttz/retrying/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, _file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /private/var/folders/xz/w52k1b9n2935_w13djkjn9pc0000gn/T/pip-record-w8sk2i31/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile

         cwd: /private/var/folders/xz/w52k1b9n2935_w13djkjn9pc0000gn/T/pip-install-br5inttz/retrying/

    Complete output (9 lines):

    running install

    running build

    running build_py

    creating build

    creating build/lib

    copying retrying.py -> build/lib

    running install_lib

    copying build/lib/retrying.py -> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages

    error: could not create '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/retrying.py': Permission denied

    ----------------------------------------

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/python3.8 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/xz/w52k1b9n2935_w13djkjn9pc0000gn/T/pip-install-br5inttz/retrying/setup.py'"'"'; _file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/xz/w52k1b9n2935_w13djkjn9pc0000gn/T/pip-install-br5inttz/retrying/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, _file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /private/var/folders/xz/w52k1b9n2935_w13djkjn9pc0000gn/T/pip-record-w8sk2i31/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile Check the logs for full command output.

WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 20.0.2 is available.

You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Answer 1

You can try the below code which will help you install plotly by using the pip command

$ pip install plotly==4.6.0

You can even use the code command to install the plotly package as shown below:

$ conda install -c plotly plotly=4.6.0

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