Spacy: error of symbolic link privilege not held when installing en model

[fodkastir]

• Operating System: Win 7
• Python Version Used: 3.5
• spaCy Version Used: 1.7
• Environment Information:
  I can download the file successfully, but an error occurred and ended the install process. Any hints for solving the issue. Thanks!!!
  

[ines]

Thanks for the report! I just did a quick search for the error message and it looks like it might be caused by insufficient permissions. Do you have admin privileges and if not, could you try run python -m spacy link en_core_web_sm en as admin? If this doesn't help, this issue might be related to the more general problems with symlinks on Windows (see #909).

In the meantime, you can also import the model as a module and call its load() method (this doesn't require any symlinks):

import spacy
import en_core_web_sm  # or any other model you downloaded via spacy download or pip

nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

You could also copy the model data into the spacy/data directory, or create a symlink to the model data manually. When you call spacy.load('model_name') spaCy will look for folders and symlinks of that name in the spacy/data directory.

[fodkastir]

Thanks for your help ines.
I ran python -m spacy link en_core_web_sm en as admin and everything works now.

[ines]

Perfect, I'm glad it worked. Thanks for updating!

[abhibisht89]

Thanks, worked for me:
python -m spacy link en_core_web_sm en

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