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Hi Guys,

I am new here and don't have much experience with Python. I am looking for help with the installation of the module dbfread.

I use Python27 and tried the following command in cmd

Quote:C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.5\Scripts>pip install dbfread

and received following error message

Error:
Collecting dbfread
  Using cached dbfread-2.0.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: dbfread
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 784, in install
    **kwargs
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 851, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files
    clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 316, in clobber
    ensure_dir(destdir)
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir
    os.makedirs(path)
  File "c:\python27\arcgis10.5\lib\os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'c:\\python27\\arcgis10.5\\Lib\\site-packages\\dbfread'

I then downloaded the .whl file from here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbfread and tried the following command

Quote:pip install PathToDownloadedFile.whl

but got the same error message.

Can anyone help please and tell me what this error means and how I can fix it?

Many thanks,
Tegir

I believe you don't have admin rights.

Run cmd as admin.

Thamk you guys, opening cmd as admin solved the issue!