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Install pip packages with homebrew
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Install pip packages with homebrew:
1. Install Homebrew
http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
2. Install the brew-pip package
brew install brew-pip
3. Add Homebrew's pip path to your PYTHONPATH environment variable (you probably should add this to some sort of shell initialization file like ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc)
export PYTHONPATH=$(brew --prefix)/lib/python2.7/site-packages
3. Now install any pip pacakges with Homebrew!
brew pip Glances
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You can use Python's venv like described here.

However if you really want to install packages that way, then there are a couple of solutions:

use pip's argument --break-system-packages,
add following lines to ~/.config/pip/pip.conf:

[global]
break-system-packages = true

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