AWS RedHat AMI setup.py pathing issues

[daniel-redder]

Background
I'm using a t2 ec2 instance on AWS with their RedHat ami distro.
I am using this library to query Marta for my capstone research project.
Previously I was using a raspberry pi to collect the data and send it to a mounted google drive for storage, but with internet issues corrupting my mount, I decided to switch to AWS.

Problem
I am able to run tox which runs successfully excluding errors from not having the API key set, however when I try to run setup.py it gives me the following error :

error: can't create or remove files in install directory

 sudo python3 setup.py install
running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing marta.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to marta.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing requirements to marta.egg-info/requires.txt
writing top-level names to marta.egg-info/top_level.txt
reading manifest file 'marta.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'marta.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
copying marta.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying marta.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying marta.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying marta.egg-info/requires.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying marta.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 11, in <module>
    'requests-cache'
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 129, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 67, in run
    self.do_egg_install()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 109, in do_egg_install
    self.run_command('bdist_egg')
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py", line 218, in run
    os.path.join(archive_root, 'EGG-INFO'), self.zip_safe()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py", line 269, in zip_safe
    return analyze_egg(self.bdist_dir, self.stubs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py", line 379, in analyze_egg
    safe = scan_module(egg_dir, base, name, stubs) and safe
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py", line 416, in scan_module
    code = marshal.load(f)
ValueError: bad marshal data (unknown type code)

Before this, it gave me a directory doesn't exist error because my python is default installed globally in /lib/python3.7 I took the python3.7 directory and copied it into a new directory based on the path the setup.py wanted. /user/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages, and the above error is what I got. I have played with this for days googling multiple things. I thought from https://cets.seas.upenn.edu/answers/install-python-module.html that using --prefix= might solve my problems it did not. I tried following a link I got from the setup.py error https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/easy_install.html#custom-installation-locations which leads to a blank page. I'm a bit lost on how to fix this.

My end goal is to take live data from MARTA buses every 5 minutes from an AWS ec2 instance and put them into a dynamo DB for analysis and for website presentation.