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After executing command : pip install folium

in python console import folium this command is not working

14:11 ~/mapping $ pip install folium Collecting folium
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from folium)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): jinja2 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from folium)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from folium)
Collecting branca (from folium)
Using cached branca-0.2.0-py2-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): MarkupSafe in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from jinja2->folium)
Installing collected packages: branca, folium
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 317, in run
prefix=options.prefix_path,
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 742, in install
**kwargs
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 831, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1032, in move_wheel_files
isolated=self.isolated,
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 346, in move_wheel_files
clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 317, in clobber
ensure_dir(destdir)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/utils/init.py", line 83, in ensure_dir
os.makedirs(path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/branca-0.2.0.dist-info'
14:11 ~/mapping $ python Python 2.7.6 (default, Oct 26 2016, 20:30:19)
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import folium Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named folium

You can't import it because the install failed. See the docs

Could you please explain the probable reason for installation failure?

That is explained in the docs I linked to.

I am still getting similar errors even with different versions of python.

Read the docs I linked to.