psutil error code 1 in Red Hat 7.3.1-5 with Python 3.7.0rc1

[KaduUlson]

Hello everyone,

I'm having issues while trying to install psutil in a Amazon EC2 Instance with Red Hat 7.3.1-5.
First, i've installed python with 'sudo yum install python3'. Also installed the Python Header Files with 'sudo yum install python3-devel'.
Created an alias (alias python=python3) to run the latest python version, instead of the system-used Python 2.7.14.

When I try to install psutil with 'pip install psutil' i get the folowing error:

`
Collecting psutil
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e3/58/0eae6e4466e5abf779d7e2b71fac7fba5f59e00ea36ddb3ed690419ccb0f/psutil-5.4.8.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: psutil
Running setup.py install for psutil ... error
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python2 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-sYWCpP/psutil/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-UfP2me-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_exceptions.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_psposix.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_psbsd.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_psaix.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_pssunos.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_pslinux.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_common.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/init.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_psosx.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_compat.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
copying psutil/_pswindows.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/main.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_bsd.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_contracts.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_aix.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_memory_leaks.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_connections.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_system.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_linux.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_misc.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/init.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_osx.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_process.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_windows.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_posix.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_sunos.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
copying psutil/tests/test_unicode.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/tests
running build_ext
building 'psutil._psutil_linux' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=548 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c psutil/_psutil_common.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_common.o
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=548 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c psutil/_psutil_posix.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_posix.o
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=548 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c psutil/_psutil_linux.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_linux.o
gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-z,relro build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_common.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_posix.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_linux.o -L/usr/lib64 -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_linux.so
building 'psutil._psutil_posix' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=548 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c psutil/_psutil_common.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_common.o
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=548 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c psutil/_psutil_posix.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_posix.o
gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-z,relro build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_common.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_posix.o -L/usr/lib64 -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_posix.so
running install_lib
creating /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/psutil
error: could not create '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/psutil': Permission denied

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

Command "/usr/bin/python2 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-sYWCpP/psutil/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-UfP2me-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-sYWCpP/psutil/
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Could someone point me to the correct direction? I've already tryed everything in this tread #1143 but nothing seems to work.

Thanks in advance

[giampaolo]

That's a permission problem. You either need to install psutil globally (at system level) by using sudo / root or use pip install --user psutil or use a virtual env. Closing.

[KaduUlson]

You are the king!

[giampaolo]

:D