pypa/pip — Issue #448: pip install -t <dir> --upgrade <package> fails when package exists in the system.
Author: skorokithakis
Created: 2012-02-04 14:39:37+00:00
State: open

Trying to install httplib2 in a directory with:

> pip install --target /tmp/test/ --upgrade httplib2

fails. Apparently, pip thinks it needs to upgrade the system python and tries to copy the egg-info directory to the system directory, which fails because of sudo. Unfortunately, I have no clue how to fix this...