Permission error on installing frappe on Unbuntu 12.04

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On installing setup_frappe.sh using sudo I get a permission error - see below.

user@host:~/projects/bench$ sudo bash setup_frappe.sh
Installing for Ubuntu precise amd64
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Installing packages for Ubuntu. This might take time…
Installing wkhtmltopdf
Adding frappe user
Installing frappe-bench
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/bench”, line 5, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 2707, in
working_set.require(requires)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 686, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 575, in resolve
env = Environment(self.entries)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 744, in init
self.scan(search_path)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 773, in scan
for dist in find_distributions(item):
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 1751, in find_on_path
for line in open(os.path.join(path_item, entry)):
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bench.egg-link’

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the pip install bench command is called via sudo. No idea why there’s a permission error.

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Thanks for replying. Yes, its weird because it was run with sudo. Anyway, I was able to make better progress doing the install manually.