permission denied when installing tensorflow on centos 7

[joseph pareti]

here are details on my attempt:


tensorflow for centos 7 installation guidelines are in:
https://gist.github.com/thoolihan/28679cd8156744a62f88

sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ python-pip python-devel atlas atlas-devel
gcc- gfortran openssl-devel libffi-devel
# use pip or pip3 as you prefer for python or python3
pip install --upgrade virtualenv
virtualenv --system-site-packages ~/venvs/tensorflow
source ~/venvs/tensorflow/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade numpy scipy wheel cryptography #optional
pip install --upgrade
https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.10.0rc0-cp35-
cp35m-linux_x86_64.whl
# or below if you want gpu, support, but cuda and cudnn are required, see
docs for more install instructions
pip install --upgrade
https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/gpu/tensorflow-0.10.0rc0-cp35-
cp35m-linux_x86_64.whl

EXECUTION /STEP 1
OK

EXECUTION /STEP 2
OK

EXECUTION /STEP 3
[joepareti54 at xxx tensorflow_tmpdir]$ pip3 install --upgrade virtualenv >>
step3.txt 2>&1
[joepareti54 at xxx tensorflow_tmpdir]$ cat step3.txt
Collecting virtualenv
  Downloading
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ed/ea/e20b5cbebf45d3096e8138ab74eda139595d827677f38e9dd543e6015bdf/virtualenv-15.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
(2.6MB)
Installing collected packages: virtualenv
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line
215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File
"/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py",
line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File
"/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line
784, in install
    **kwargs
  File
"/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py",
line 851, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
  File
"/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py",
line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line
345, in move_wheel_files
    clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
  File "/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line
323, in clobber
    shutil.copyfile(srcfile, destfile)
  File "/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/shutil.py", line 115, in copyfile
    with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/virtualenv.py'
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
[joepareti54 at xxx tensorflow_tmpdir]$