Entering pip install 'package name' or pip search 'package name' on the terminal always results on an error. I’m on a windows 10 operating system, downloaded python from python.org, python version: 3.12.4, pip version:24.0.

Searched all over the internet for a solution but nothing worked. pip install works fine on my laptop so nothing’s wrong with the network. I remember it working just fine in the past so it’s likely that i changed something on the computer, also i remember messing around with chocolatey before the issue (maybe it’s related).

This is the error:

$pip install pyautogui
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))': /simple/pyautogui/
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))': /simple/pyautogui/
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))': /simple/pyautogui/
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))': /simple/pyautogui/
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))': /simple/pyautogui/
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pyautogui (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pyautogui

When entering this command that i found on the internet which looks something like this:

$curl pypi(...).org | (...)

I got an error related to the file ‘firefox.browser’

Those are things I tried:

1- turning firewall off
2- running command as administrator
3- using --user tag
4- using virtual environment (venv)
5- un / re install python/pip
6- adding python to path
7- checking the 256 character path length limitation setting
8- entering command $pip install --upgrade pip results on the same error