On 06.04.2018 18:25, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > CentOS 7 box. As there's no package in any of the repos, we're trying to > install scikit-learn in the user's space. It refuses. My late try was, > after d/l a .whl from last year, hoping that would work with the numpy > package in the regular repos, I did a pip install --user scikit-learn..., > and it still seems to want to write to system space: OSError: [Errno 13] > Permission denied: > '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/numpy-1.7.1.dist-info can't reproduce your issue: [ulf at centos7-x1 ~]$ pip install --user scikit-learn Collecting scikit-learn Downloading scikit_learn-0.19.1-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (12.2MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 12.2MB 101kB/s Installing collected packages: scikit-learn Successfully installed scikit-learn-0.19.1 You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 9.0.3 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. But on my testbox, i'm not sucessful to use the system numpy and scipy packages. i had to install them using pip. best regards Ulf