pip install --user fails

[Shock]

I want to install a module in ~/.local which pip install --user should do, according to the docs but instead it fails. Here's the output:

$ pip install --install-option="--user" TermRecord
Downloading/unpacking TermRecord
  Downloading TermRecord-1.1.3.tar.gz (49kB): 49kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_shock/TermRecord/setup.py) egg_info for package TermRecord

Downloading/unpacking Jinja2>=2.6 (from TermRecord)
  Downloading Jinja2-2.7.3.tar.gz (378kB): 378kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_shock/Jinja2/setup.py) egg_info for package Jinja2

    warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'custom_fixers'
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'docs/_build'
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found under directory 'jinja2'
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found under directory 'docs'
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyo' found under directory 'jinja2'
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyo' found under directory 'docs'
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): markupsafe in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from Jinja2>=2.6->TermRecord)
Installing collected packages: TermRecord, Jinja2
  Running setup.py install for TermRecord
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/TermRecord from 664 to 775
    error: could not create '/usr/local/share/TermRecord': Permission denied
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_shock/TermRecord/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zhS0F6-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user:
    running install

running build

running build_scripts

creating build

creating build/scripts-2.7

copying and adjusting src/TermRecord -> build/scripts-2.7

changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/TermRecord from 664 to 775

running install_data

creating /usr/local/share/TermRecord

error: could not create '/usr/local/share/TermRecord': Permission denied

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_shock/TermRecord/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zhS0F6-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_shock/TermRecord
Storing debug log for failure in /home/shock/.pip/pip.log

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: python-pip 1.5.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Sep 24 21:47:31 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-02 (145 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: python-pip
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Shock (mmiron)]

Attached pip log file.

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

Have you tried with a newer `pip`? pip install --user?

[Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-life on April 25, 2019.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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