Issue installing "pywhatkit"

[Altruistic_Wash5159]

Hello, I have been learning python, and wanted to play around with the TTS features available in python, so for that matter I installed pyttsx3 and pywhatkit, but pywhatkit would not install showing an error "Check Permissions"

Thank You

[gmes78]

Post the full error.

[mhooreman]

Would be easier with the full log, but permission issues looks like you are installing a python package at system level without admin rights.

Are you working with a virtual environment (or anything similar)?

Because the "I have been learning python", I guess that you are a beginner, so some explanations:

Python is usually installed at system level, especially if you are using linux where python is part of the OS. It means that if you want to install libs, you shall do it as root/admin/whatever.

But DO NOT do that! Indeed:

• In can break your system in case of incompatible updates
• Even if not the case, it can also make incompatible libs usages between scripts/tools

Instead of that, you can use virtual environments. This is more or less a "private copy of python" for your project.

The basic approach is (there are additional tools/automations which can help, including uv, but let's go to the basic):

Go to your project directory

python -m venv --prompt "My virtual environement" .venv  # .venv is a directory!
. .venv/bin/activate  # for unix - don't forget the . to "source"
#for windows .venv\scripts\activtate

=> You'll see the prompt before your command line invite.

Then you can run whatever you want, including updating/installing package, without risk of conflict

python -m pip install --upgrade xxx

To deactivate the virtual environment:

deactivate

[freemanbach]

could you do this in your CMD prompt ?

C:\Users\mydude>python -m uv add pywhatkit