title: SpaCy OSError: Can't find model 'en'
body: <p>even though I downloaded the model it cannot load it</p>
  
  <pre><code>[jalal@goku entity-sentiment-analysis]$ which python
  /scratch/sjn/anaconda/bin/python
  [jalal@goku entity-sentiment-analysis]$ sudo python -m spacy download en
  [sudo] password for jalal: 
  Collecting https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz
    Downloading https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz (37.4MB)
      100% |████████████████████████████████| 37.4MB 9.4MB/s 
  Installing collected packages: en-core-web-sm
    Running setup.py install for en-core-web-sm ... done
  Successfully installed en-core-web-sm-2.0.0
  
      Linking successful
      /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/en_core_web_sm --&gt;
      /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/data/en
  
      You can now load the model via spacy.load('en')
  
  import spacy 
  
  nlp = spacy.load('en')
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-2-0fcabaab8c3d&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
        1 import spacy
        2 
  ----&gt; 3 nlp = spacy.load('en')
  
  /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spacy/__init__.py in load(name, **overrides)
       17             "to load. For example:\nnlp = spacy.load('{}')".format(depr_path),
       18             'error')
  ---&gt; 19     return util.load_model(name, **overrides)
       20 
       21 
  
  /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spacy/util.py in load_model(name, **overrides)
      118     elif hasattr(name, 'exists'):  # Path or Path-like to model data
      119         return load_model_from_path(name, **overrides)
  --&gt; 120     raise IOError("Can't find model '%s'" % name)
      121 
      122 
  
  OSError: Can't find model 'en'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How should I fix this?</p>
  
  <p>If I don't use sudo for downloading the en model, I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Collecting https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz
    Downloading https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz (37.4MB)
      100% |████████████████████████████████| 37.4MB 9.6MB/s ta 0:00:011   62% |████████████████████            | 23.3MB 8.6MB/s eta 0:00:02
  Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): en-core-web-sm==2.0.0 from https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz in /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages
  You are using pip version 10.0.0, however version 10.0.1 is available.
  You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
  
      Error: Couldn't link model to 'en'
      Creating a symlink in spacy/data failed. Make sure you have the required
      permissions and try re-running the command as admin, or use a
      virtualenv. You can still import the model as a module and call its
      load() method, or create the symlink manually.
  
      /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/en_core_web_sm --&gt;
      /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spacy/data/en
  
  
      Download successful but linking failed
      Creating a shortcut link for 'en' didn't work (maybe you don't have
      admin permissions?), but you can still load the model via its full
      package name:
  
      nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
  </code></pre>