How to solve zsh: permission denied: mkdocs after pip installation?

Question

I installed mkdocs using pip3. At the beginning, I couldn't run mkdocs => I got mkdocs command not found. Then, I located the installation path of pip and modified my ~/.zshrc path

bash pip3 show mkdocs  

Name: mkdocs
Version: 1.3.0
Summary: Project documentation with Markdown.
Home-page: https://www.mkdocs.org
Author: Tom Christie
Author-email: tom@tomchristie.com
License: BSD
Location: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages
Requires: click, ghp-import, importlib-metadata, Jinja2, Markdown, mergedeep, packaging, PyYAML, pyyaml-env-tag, watchdog
Required-by:

The problem is that now if I run mkdocs I get in return:

zsh: permission denied: mkdocs

That is, I guess, because the Library directory in which pip installs is outside of the my user directory and I don't have write access to it.

What's the smartest move to solve it?

Did you follow this? [Getting Started with MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/getting-started/#theming-our-documentation) — Mohamad Ghaith Alzin, Jun 04 '22 at 18:32
@EnricoBottazzi I have run into the same error. Did you resolve this? — Vish, Jul 02 '22 at 23:05

user20848495 · Answer 1 · 2022-12-23T16:00:30.283

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I had same error (Windows 10). Worked when starting mkdocs with python -m mkdocs build

edited Dec 23 '22 at 16:00

answered Dec 23 '22 at 15:59

user20848495

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '23 at 16:37

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For similar issue in mac I used python3 -m mkdocs --version

answered Jan 27 '23 at 16:37

sUserStack

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How to solve zsh: permission denied: mkdocs after pip installation?

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