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Can't install Pyautogui via pip: error code 1


I typed pip install pyautogui It gave the error message:

Command ""c:\program files\python36\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Crack\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-mopggaqx\\pymsgbox\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Crack\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-vmqzyehf-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Crack\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-mopggaqx\pymsgbox\

I tried looking it up and somebody said that I needed to install Pillow first by saying pip install Pillow. I tried doing that but something similar came up:

Command ""c:\program files\python36\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Crack\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-mopggaqx\\pymsgbox\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Crack\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-vmqzyehf-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Crack\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-mopggaqx\pymsgbox\

Solution

  • I just figured it out. I noticed that at the end of my error message it said

    Access Denied
    

    I ran the command prompt as an Administrator (I don't know why it wasn't already running it as such since I'm logged in as Admin but oh well) and said

    pip install pyautogui
    

    and it worked.