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I tried to install distribute or setuptools which has to be done prior to installing pip on the Raspberry Pi.

The command used was $ curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | python

However I got the following error. I can copy past the entire terminal script if requested.

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/test-easy-install-2082.pth'

Thanks for helping!

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have you tried doing it with sudo at the front, or installing from a package (sudo apt-get install python-setuptools)? – Steve Robillard Jan 17 at 1:57
sudo apt-get worked! – chaitanya.varanasi Jan 17 at 2:18
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why don't you write that up as an answer an accept it. – Steve Robillard Jan 17 at 11:36
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You should note that the curl line above downloads an unknown script from the Internet and then executes it sight unseen. You might trust python-distibute.org, but that's still a very bad thing to do :) – XTL Jan 22 at 8:37

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Try putting 

sudo

at the front.

Or try installing from a package like so:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

(adding this answer here instead of in the comments)

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sudo curl ... | python is still insufficient, it makes the root user fetch a URL and then run python as the local user. curl ... | sudo python does what you would expect, but note the warning made by XTL: directly running scripts from remote sources without any form of verification is highly insecure. – Lekensteyn Jun 27 at 12:54

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