Permission Denied Error with virtualenv installing django

Following the tutorial: How To Install and Configure Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn

Step three: Activated the virtualenv then ‘pip install django’ yielded the error below. Virtualenvs are supposed to alleviate permissions issues.

kurt@bangzoom:~$ source /opt/myenv/bin/activate (myenv)kurt@bangzoom:~$ pip install django Downloading/unpacking django Cleaning up… Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/opt/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py”, line 134, in main status = self.run(options, args) File “/opt/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py”, line 236, in run requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle) File “/opt/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py”, line 1058, in prepare_files location = req_to_install.build_location(self.build_dir, not self.is_download) File “/opt/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py”, line 175, in build_location _make_build_dir(build_dir) File “/opt/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py”, line 1390, in _make_build_dir os.makedirs(build_dir) File “/opt/myenv/lib/python2.7/os.py”, line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/opt/myenv/build’