I am new on Ubuntu, I am trying to uninstall selenium package in python. It gives me an error of permission denied METADATA. I am only user on linux machine and administrator.
I type the code:
pip uninstall selenium
error is
Proceed (Y/n)? Y
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/shutil.py", line 816, in move
os.rename(src, real_dst)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/selenium-4.10.0.dist-info/' -> '/tmp/pip-uninstall-ol0rk4kb'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 165, in exc_logging_wrapper
status = run_func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/uninstall.py", line 97, in run
uninstall_pathset = req.uninstall(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/req/req_install.py", line 638, in uninstall
uninstalled_pathset.remove(auto_confirm, verbose)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/req/req_uninstall.py", line 369, in remove
moved.stash(path)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/req/req_uninstall.py", line 267, in stash
renames(path, new_path)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 305, in renames
shutil.move(old, new)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/shutil.py", line 834, in move
rmtree(src)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/shutil.py", line 725, in rmtree
_rmtree_safe_fd(fd, path, onerror)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/shutil.py", line 681, in _rmtree_safe_fd
onerror(os.unlink, fullname, sys.exc_info())
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/shutil.py", line 679, in _rmtree_safe_fd
os.unlink(entry.name, dir_fd=topfd)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'METADATA'