sudo and pip not on the same path

Question

pip and sudo are not on the same path on my machine, so when (basically all the time) I need to run both commands, like so:

sudo pip install xxx

I get:

sudo: pip: command not found

pip downloads packages, but since access is being denied at the end of installation, it ends up failing.

by doing pip -V, (which pip returns nothing) I get to know where pip is:

pip 1.5.4 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)

and by doing sudo bash -c 'echo $PATH',

I get:

/usr/bin:~/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/Applications/Zed.app/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin

I have tried to symlink pip into sudo's directories, like so:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip, to no avail.

How do I put sudo on the same path?

Answer 1

According to here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/83194, you should be able to run this command like this:

sudo env 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin' pip ...

Answer 2

After installing pip, I did

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip

and now root can use pip without any PATH modifications. I had trouble making PATH modifications to the root account.