I installed a new virtual environment using the following command:
sudo virtualenv --python=python3.4 mysite
Then, I edited the permissions of the newly created folder:
sudo chmod -R 777 mysite/
I then proceeded to activate the virtual environment:
source mysite/bin/activate
The virtualenv was activated with (mysite) showing up before the prompt.
On my system-wide python packages I have django version 1.7.1 installed. I wanted to install django 1.8 to the virtualenv. So, I did this:
sudo pip3 install django==1.8
But to my horror, it deleted django 1.7.1 from my system and installed 1.8 on the system, not just the virtualenv as I wanted.
I confirmed this by running:
python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"
It returns 1.8 both when the virtualenv is activated as well as deactivated.
How do I install 1.8 only inside the virtualenv, without affecting the system-wide django version?
No need to use sudo virtualenv Use only virtualenv
Purpose of virtualenv is to get isolated python environment.
When you are inside virtualenv don't use sudo pip / sudo pip3.
Use pip without sudo. sudo pip is used to install python packages system wide.
So, normal workflow is
virtualenv --python=python3.4 mysite
source mysite/bin/activate
pip install <package_name_version> like pip install django==1.8
My guess is that the environment variables that specify the python / pip to use (especially PATH) are not passed through sudo. Why do you have to sudo anything anyway? Just create the virtualenv as your user, source bin/activate as your user, and run pip as your user.
For more information: man sudoers and search for Command environment.
dont use sudo while installing djando via pip and also try to use sudo less for creating virtual env and for changing permissions.
i have tried these way and have done it
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I was creating a new virtual environment on Ubuntu 20.04:
$ virtualenv my_env
But it gave an error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenv.seed.embed.via_app_data'
Other info:
$ virtualenv --version
virtualenv 20.0.17 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/virtualenv/__init__.py
#yushulx
I also ran into the same issue. I installed both via pip3 and via sudo apt install python3-virtualenv and it gave me an error but after I ran pip3 uninstall virtualenv I could create a virtualenv without issue
Try to create the virtual environment using directly venv module
python3 -m venv my_env
To fix this on Ubuntu 20.04, I had to uninstall virtualenv from the system: apt remove python3-virtualenv, and reinstall it using pip: pip install --user virtualenv --force-reinstall. I had errors about dependencies conflicts, I fixed them by calling pip install --user ${package} --force-reinstall for every package involved.
virtualenv is installed by default with python itself and when you install virtualenv via pip3 and try to create virtual environment using pipenv you will get this error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenv.seed.embed.via_app_data
check the version of installed virtualenv using apt list --installed
mine is:
python3-virtualenv/focal,focal,now 20.0.17-1 all [installed,automatic]
with the installed virtualenv by pip3
min is :
virtualenv 20.4.0
default installation of virtualenv is different with pip3 installed virtualenv
so when you try to create a virtual environment using pipenv for example installing django in a directory home/user/djano with pipenv install django~=3.1.5 you will get that error
the solution is remove installed virtualenv using pip3 uninstall virtualenv and use the default installation of virtualenv this time when you create virtual environment with pipenv it will create it successfully.
I want to have virtualenvwrapper. On Debian 10 testing I did:
apt remove python3-virtualenvwrapper # not purge, I want no changes in ~/.virtualenvs/
apt purge python3-virtualenv
/usr/bin/python3.8 -m pip install --force-reinstall virtualenvwrapper
/usr/bin/python3.8 -m pip install --force-reinstall virtualenv==20.0.23
.24 no longer works. I hope it will be solved sometimes...
EDIT 2021.01: I have changed my stack to: pyenv + pyenv-virtualenvwrapper + poetry. Ie. I use no apt or pip installation of virtualenv or virtualenvwrapper, and instead I install pyenv's plugin pyenv-virtualenvwrapper. This is easier way.
If someone encounters this problem inside existing env (when for example using pyenv) you can also use command below (found on GitHub when tried to fix poetry virtual env installation):
pip install --force-reinstall virtualenv
When I installed virtualenv via pip3, it failed to run virtualenv command. Then I changed the installation via:
sudo apt install python3-virtualenv
The virtualenv command can normally work.
I too had this issue. What I found is it is a permissions issue. For some unknown reason ownership of my home directory was off. I did a chown -R for the directory I was using for my project making myself the owner of my own directory and now everything works as normal.
I also had same issue, seems installed version has different user level so I followed their doc and below one work for me:
python3 -m virtualenv --help
To create new environment:
python3 -m virtualenv my_env
I also faced the same issue but after removing virtualenv which was installed with pip3, I could get rid of this error. Uninstall virtualenv with below command (don't forget to use sudo)
sudo pip3 uninstall virtualenv
After this, virtualenv command works totally fine.
It means that there are two virtualenv in your system.
One is "pip install" by sudo or root, the other may be installed by apt(if you are using ubuntu os)
Just uninstall one of them and the error should be fixed.
I fixed this error by removing all virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper related packages on system and reinstall the virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper with pip with below command(as i use ubuntu, so below only show apt)
remove all packages shown in below result
apt list --installed | grep virtualenvwrapper
apt list --installed | grep virtualenvwrapper
install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper with pip
pip install virtualenvwrapper virtualenvwrapper
set ~/.zshrc
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/amd
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_SCRIPT=/home/robot/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=$(which python3)
source /home/robot/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
When we use pip3 or python3 to install virtualenv then I got that error too. I had to run each time to create virtualenv (my_env is virtual environment name)
python3 -m virtualenv my_env
But if I install it using
sudo apt install virtualenv
Then virtualenv command works fine.
virtualenv my_env
I've read a lot of blog post about this and I'm still confused as to what is "best" way to set it up. Most of the blog posts I've read are out-dated. I'm new to Linux and have messed up my system twice now and still can't setup the virtual environments properly. According to what I've read, Virtualenv and Virtualenvwrapper combination is the most widely used setup. So, After a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install, I do the following:
Install Python 3.6 as shown in the following link.
https://tecadmin.net/install-python-3-6-ubuntu-linuxmint/
The current state of the system now is,
$ python3.6 -V
Python 3.6.4
$ pip3.6 -V
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (python 3.6)
pip3 (python3.5) and pip(python2.7) do not come pre-installed. To install them , I do:
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
$ which pip
/usr/bin/pip
$ which pip3
/usr/bin/pip3
Now, the pip-version installed through apt-get method is old(version 8.1.1). We need to update it to (version 9.0.1). This is where it all goes wrong.
Question 1: How do I update the two different pip versions without breaking anything?
Assume, both pip versions are upgraded to version 9.0.1
Now, I have to install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper.
Which pip version do I use to install it?
$ pip install --user virtualenv and $ pip install --user virtualenvwrapper
or
$ pip3 install --user virtualenv and $ pip3 install --user virtualenvwrapper
ps: I'm following this link-
http://chrisstrelioff.ws/sandbox/2016/09/21/python_setup_on_ubuntu_16_04.html
With python 3.6 virtual environments come built-in with the venv module:
python3.6 -m venv my-venv
To create a virtual environment for python 3.5:
virtualenv -p python3.5 env
To create a virtual environment for python 2.7:
virtualenv -p python2.7 env
Try using conda to set up virtual environments ?
With conda you can create a virtual environment and keep each of them separate from the root environment.
I have installed python-django in a ubuntu 14.04, unfortunately I need to use exactly that distribution, but it is unsupported now, to update django I used the pip, how do I use the newer version instead of the apt version?
You need virtualenv. It enables you to create a virtual python environment with its own packages (instead of system-wide packages).
First, install python-virtualenv package with apt-get:
$ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv # or python3-virtualenv if you use python 3
And create a virtualenv:
$ virtualenv /home/user/venv
Then activate the virtualenv you created (after doing this, you will be using only the packages you installed in this virtualenv, ignoring the system-wide packages):
$ source /home/user/venv/bin/activate
Now you can install the packages you want:
$ pip install django==1.7 # replace 1.7 with the version you need
or if you want to install the latest version currently available (be careful here, in future you can install latest version and the version can be different from the version you worked on)
$ pip install django
After this point, whenever you run python manage.py runserver in a django project, you will be using the django package you installed in this virtualenv.
Extra notes:
You can save the packages you installed, in order to be able to install them again on another virtualenv:
$ pip freeze > requirements.txt
And then you can install the list of packages you saved later with:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
I am trying to create another virtual environment (I already installed one using the typical instructions found here: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/) so I run:
$ virtualenv experimental
-> The program 'virtualenv' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install virtualenv
I checked to see if perhaps the program needed to be updated:
$ pip install virtualenv --upgrade
-> Requirement already up-to-date: virtualenv in /home/uniside/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Any ideas about what is going on here?
Use sudo. Currently it's being install in your local directory.
sudo pip install virtualenv
The answer by #khrm didn't worked for me.
I was able to do this with :
sudo apt install virtualenv
I had problems activating my virtualenv projects with Ubuntu's system version, so I just use pip's virtualenv. Works with python2 as well:
$ pip3 install virtualenv
Just call virutalenv via python3 -m:
$ python3 -m virtualenv --help
Usage: virtualenv.py [OPTIONS] DEST_DIR
I have a CentOS 6.4 which the default python version is 2.6.
I want to run a virtualenv at python 2.7, so first I try to install python 2.7.
yum install python27
Then I run
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 ./venv
Then the output shows that it try to get setuptools from pypi, but my environment can not reach pypi.python.org. I have update the ~/.pip/pip.conf to use a available local source but the virtualenv still get pip from the pypi.python.org. This is one of the things I get confused.
I check the /usr/lib/python2.7/, the site-packages is empty while /usr/lib/python2.6/ is not. So When I use python 2.7, it has nothing available. When I use the default python, it has pip tools installed, it does not need to get it from pypi.python.org.
How can I install pip for python 2.7 individually?
Previous I install pip by
yum install python-setuptools
yum install python-pip
The second question, how to install pip for python2.7 individually can be solved as the following:
Download python source code of the specific version and install it at /usr/local
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tar.xz
tar xf Python-2.7.6.tar.xz
cd Python-2.7.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-unicode=ucs4 --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"
make && make altinstall
Then install setuptools and pip
Install easy_install (prepare ez_setup.py beforehand)
python2.7 ez_setup.py
Install pip
easy_install-2.7 pip
easy_intall-2.7 pip need to visit the internet, in my environment I get the pip source file and use "python2.7 setup.py install".
pip2.7 install [packagename]
In my environment I update .pip/pip.conf to use an internal pip source.
(code above take python 2.7 as an example)
To see the details you can check the following url:
http://toomuchdata.com/2014/02/16/how-to-install-python-on-centos/
The first question, when creating a new virtual environment, virtualenv will install setuptools for this environment. If python version is not assigned, it use the system default python and default pip. If pip is not find, then try to get it from pypi.python.org.
In my environment, after python2.7 and pip2.7 installed, when trying to create a new virtualenv, it still get pip from pypi.python.org, I guess that virtualenv does not find the relation between python2.7 and pip2.7.
If you can visit pypi.python.org, that is fine.
If you are at an internal environment that can not visit pypi.python.org, virtualenv provides -extra-search-dir and --never-download command. So you can prepare the setuptools beforehand, copy it from U-disk，using scp, or other solutions.
Move setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg to /usr/local/bin.
Finally we can use virtualenv by
virtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python2.7 --extra-search-dir /usr/local/bin/ --never-download venv