[Slackbuilds-users] youtube-dl PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/evdev-1.0.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO'

[Donald Cooley]

I wondered if someone here could help with the error PermissionError:
[Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/evdev-1.0.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO'.

I get the above error whenever I run youtube-dl.

I'm not a heavy user of the application so I am not sure how long I have
had this problem with my system.

BTW, I get a similar error if I uninstall python-3 and rebuild youtube-dl.

Here is output from the terminal:
youtube-dl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 3088, in <module>
    @_call_aside
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 3072, in _call_aside
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 3101, in _initialize_master_working_set
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 565, in _build_master
    ws = cls()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 558, in __init__
    self.add_entry(entry)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 614, in add_entry
    for dist in find_distributions(entry, True):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 1964, in find_on_path
    for dist in factory(fullpath):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 2034, in distributions_from_metadata
    root, entry, metadata, precedence=DEVELOP_DIST,
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 2473, in from_location
    py_version=py_version, platform=platform, **kw
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 2835, in _reload_version
    md_version = _version_from_file(self._get_metadata(self.PKG_INFO))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 2437, in _version_from_file
    line = next(iter(version_lines), '')
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 2627, in _get_metadata
    for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 1408, in get_metadata_lines
    return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 1404, in get_metadata
    value = self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info, name))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
line 1516, in _get
    with open(path, 'rb') as stream:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/evdev-1.0.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO'