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Why can't I install anything through pip

I get this error

~/games Wed Jan 24 program4cool@python $ pip2 install pygame Collecting pygame
Using cached pygame-1.9.3-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Installing collected packages: pygame
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/pygame'

See help on installing new modules for general info , but see this help page on tkinter/pygame -- pygame is mostly about drawing to the screen, reading from the keyboard and making sounds. There is no screen to draw on on pythonanywhere, no keyboard connected and no speaker, so it won't work unfortunately.