I have had this running battle with pip on my windows 10 PC ever since I tried to upgrade it. I tried to upgrade it with pip upgrade. After that, pip has stopped working. I wanted to install Pygame on my pc with pip install pygame and I got the following error message about my operating system:

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Python310\\Include\\pygame'
Consider using the `--user` option or check the permissions.

I get the same error message anytime I try to install any python package on my pc. Please what can I do to correct this problem?

CodePudding user response：

Run Windows PowerShell as Admin then run the pip install command to install the python module or upgrade the pip.

or

Run Pip Install with --user python -m pip install --upgrade pip --user

CodePudding user response：

Just type the command you want execute with the user permission, if you don't want to change the permission:

pip install pygame --user

and if you want to change user permission then follow these steps:

Just change the access permission, where the particular package is going to install.

On Windows 10:

• Go to the installation folder. For example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Python37
• Right click on python installation root and click Properties. In this case, the Python37 folder.
• Go to the Security tab, click Edit button and allow full control for the Users group. Remember to click Apply.
• Try to install the package again.

Below is an example of desired settings: