title: Installing praw on a mac
body: <p>I have already installed homebrew and pip. When I run $pip install praw the following comes up:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dhcp-215-185:~ my_name$ pip install praw
  Downloading/unpacking praw
    Downloading praw-2.1.16-py2.py3-none-any.whl (70kB): 70kB downloaded
  Downloading/unpacking update-checker&gt;=0.10 (from praw)
    Downloading update_checker-0.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  Downloading/unpacking requests&gt;=1.2.0 (from praw)
    Downloading requests-2.2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (625kB): 625kB downloaded
  Downloading/unpacking six&gt;=1.4 (from praw)
    Downloading six-1.6.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  Installing collected packages: praw, update-checker, requests, six
  Cleaning up...
  Exception:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
      status = self.run(options, args)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 283, in run
  requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1435, in install
      requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 671, in install
  self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 901, in move_wheel_files
  pycompile=self.pycompile,
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 215, in move_wheel_files
  clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 205, in clobber
  os.makedirs(destdir)
    File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
  mkdir(name, mode)
  OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/praw'
  
  Storing debug log for failure in /Users/my_name/Library/Logs/pip.log
  dhcp-215-185:~ my_name$ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone have a fix? Installing this has been a real headache. Thanks a lot!</p>