No se puede usar easy_install para instalar módulos Python

Estoy tratando de usareasy_install para instalar un módulo llamadopeticione haciend

easy_install requests

Esto funcionó bien hace una semana cuando estaba usando Python 2.6.5 pero hoy instalé Python 2.7.2 y luego intentéimport requests en uno de mis scripts pero falló. Luego intenté reinstalar solicitudes coneasy_install requests pero recibí este error

install_dir /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
error: can't create or remove files in install directory

The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
installation directory:

    [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/test-easy-install-15207.pth'

The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
the distutils default setting) was:

    /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory?  If the
installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need to sign in
as the administrator or "root" account.  If you do not have administrative
access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different installation
directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH environment
variable.

For information on other options, you may wish to consult the
documentation at:

  http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html

Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.

Entonces me dijeron que fuera a reinstalar easy_install y fui ahttp: //pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptool y aprendí que tenía que

delete todos los archivos setuptools * .egg y setuptools.pth del directorio de paquetes del sitio de su sistema (y cualquier otro directorio sys.path) PRIMERO.

Así que hice esto. Luego reinstalé setuptools desdesetuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg. Parecía exitoso pero cuando corríeasy_install requests Recibí básicamente el mismo error, excepto que el directorio python2.6 / dist-packages ahora es python2.7 / site-packages

siddhion@siddhion-laptop:~$ easy_install requests
error: can't create or remove files in install directory

The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
installation directory:

    [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/test-easy-install-16253.write-test'

The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
the distutils default setting) was:

    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory?  If the
installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need to sign in
as the administrator or "root" account.  If you do not have administrative
access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different installation
directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH environment
variable.

For information on other options, you may wish to consult the
documentation at:

  http://peak.telecommunity.com/EasyInstall.html

Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.

También, cuando hagoeasy_install y presione la pestaña Obtengo estas opciones

easy_install      easy_install-2.6  easy_install-2.7

¿Cómo es easy_install-2.6?

¿Cómo hago para que la instalación fácil vuelva a funcionar?