Installing Twine on MacOS High Sierra

thushara@ wildhops (master)*$ sudo -H pip install twine

Password:

Collecting twine

  Downloading twine-1.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl

Collecting pkginfo>=1.4.2 (from twine)

  Downloading pkginfo-1.4.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl

Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=0.7.0 in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python (from twine)

Collecting tqdm>=4.14 (from twine)

  Downloading tqdm-4.19.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (52kB)

    100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 2.1MB/s 

Collecting requests-toolbelt>=0.8.0 (from twine)

  Downloading requests_toolbelt-0.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (54kB)

    100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 1.6MB/s 

Requirement already satisfied: requests!=2.15,!=2.16,>=2.5.0 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from twine)

Installing collected packages: pkginfo, tqdm, requests-toolbelt, twine

Exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main

    status = self.run(options, args)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run

    prefix=options.prefix_path,

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install

    **kwargs

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install

    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files

    isolated=self.isolated,

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 377, in move_wheel_files

    clobber(source, dest, False, fixer=fixer, filter=filter)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 316, in clobber

    ensure_dir(destdir)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir

    os.makedirs(path)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 150, in makedirs

    makedirs(head, mode)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs

    mkdir(name, mode)

OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/man'

The only way to get write access under /System is to boot into Recovery Mode and run this command on the Terminal:

csrutil disable


Reboot, install again