Errno 13 Permission Denied. Already In Virtual Environment

I'm trying to install tensorflow after an OS update. I'm getting an [Errno 13] Permission denied. All the forum posts I've checked recommend solving this using a virtual environmen

Solution 1:

I did some more digging.

Apparently the virtualenv was created using sudo so I needed to alter permissions.

Details here: How to avoid "Permission denied" when using pip with virtualenv

to be specific it was

sudo chown -R your_username:your_username path/to/virtuaelenv/