diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bb1d8df2..55ef2b32 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ following rules are enabled by default:
 * `no_command` – fixes wrong console commands, for example `vom/vim`;
 * `no_such_file` – creates missing directories with `mv` and `cp` commands;
 * `open` – either prepends `http://` to address passed to `open` or create a new file or directory and passes it to `open`;
+* `pip_install` – fixes permission issues with `pip install` commands by adding `--user` or prepending `sudo` if necessary;
 * `pip_unknown_command` – fixes wrong `pip` commands, for example `pip instatl/pip install`;
 * `php_s` – replaces `-s` by `-S` when trying to run a local php server;
 * `port_already_in_use` – kills process that bound port;
diff --git a/tests/rules/test_pip_install.py b/tests/rules/test_pip_install.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c920b7cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/rules/test_pip_install.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
+from thefuck.rules.pip_install import match, get_new_command
+from thefuck.types import Command
+
+
+def test_match():
+    response1 = """
+    Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/entrypoints.pyc'
+Consider using the `--user` option or check the permissions.
+"""
+    assert match(Command('pip install -r requirements.txt', response1))
+
+    response2 = """
+Collecting bacon
+  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b2/81/19fb79139ee71c8bc4e5a444546f318e2b87253b8939ec8a7e10d63b7341/bacon-0.3.1.zip (11.0MB)
+    100% |████████████████████████████████| 11.0MB 3.0MB/s
+Installing collected packages: bacon
+  Running setup.py install for bacon ... done
+Successfully installed bacon-0.3.1
+"""
+    assert not match(Command('pip install bacon', response2))
+
+
+def test_get_new_command():
+    assert get_new_command(Command('pip install -r requirements.txt', '')) == 'pip install --user -r requirements.txt'
+    assert get_new_command(Command('pip install bacon', '')) == 'pip install --user bacon'
+    assert get_new_command(Command('pip install --user -r requirements.txt', '')) == 'sudo pip install -r requirements.txt'
diff --git a/thefuck/rules/pip_install.py b/thefuck/rules/pip_install.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8ee013c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thefuck/rules/pip_install.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from thefuck.utils import for_app
+from thefuck.specific.sudo import sudo_support
+
+
+@sudo_support
+@for_app('pip')
+def match(command):
+    return ('pip install' in command.script and 'Permission denied' in command.output)
+
+
+def get_new_command(command):
+    if '--user' not in command.script:  # add --user (attempt 1)
+        return command.script.replace(' install ', ' install --user ')
+
+    return 'sudo {}'.format(command.script.replace(' --user', ''))  # since --user didn't fix things, let's try sudo (attempt 2)