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It always occur errors when i'm trying to install wheel or any other python package. What is the reason to always occur errors like this. how can i install packages correctly

Error:
C:\Users\Kavindu>python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\si
te-packages
Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in c:\program files (x86)\python36-32
\lib\site-packages
Collecting wheel
  Using cached wheel-0.30.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: wheel
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py"
, line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\instal
l.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py"
, line 784, in install
    **kwargs
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\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:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install
.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line
 345, in move_wheel_files
    clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line
 316, in clobber
    ensure_dir(destdir)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\__init__.
py", line 83, in ensure_dir
    os.makedirs(path)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\os.py", line 220, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Python
36-32\\Lib\\site-packages\\wheel'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Do you read the error message? It's to tell you where is the issue.

Quote:PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: ....

Run it with administrative privileges.

Run cmd as Administrator.

this might be silly thread for others..but its damn helping!!
thanks snippsat!!