How to activate virtualenv

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I have been through search and tried various alternatives without success and spent several days on it now - driving me mad   Running on Red Hat Linux with Python 2 5 2 Began using most recent Virtualenv but could not activate it  I found somewhere suggesting needed earlier version so I have used Virtualenv 1 6 4 as that should work with Python 2 6   It seems to install the virtual environment ok   necrailk server6     python virtualenv-1 6 4 virtualenv py virtual New python executable in virtual bin python Installing setuptools            done  Installing pip               done    Environment looks ok   necrailk server6     cd virtual  necrailk server6   virtual   dir bin  include  lib   Trying to activate   necrailk server6   virtual     bin activate  bin    Permission denied    Checked chmod   necrailk server6   virtual   cd bin  necrailk server6 bin   ls -l total 3160 -rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        2130 Jan 30 11 38 activate -rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        1050 Jan 30 11 38 activate csh -rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        2869 Jan 30 11 38 activate fish -rw-r--r-   Problem  so I changed it   necrailk server6 bin   ls -l total 3160 -rwxr--r--    1 necrailk biz12        2130 Jan 30 11 38 activate -rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        1050 Jan 30 11 38 activate csh -rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        2869 Jan 30 11 38 activate fish -rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        1005 Jan 30 11 38 activate this py -rwxr-xr-x    1 necrailk biz   Try activate again   necrailk server6   virtual     bin activate  bin    Permission denied    Still no joy

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The problem there is the  bin   command  That s really weird  since   should always be a link to the directory it s in   Honestly  unless   is a strange alias or function  I don t even see how it s possible   It s also a little unusual that your shell doesn t have a   builtin for source  One quick fix would be to just run the virtualenv in a different shell   An obvious second advantage being that instead of having to deactivate you can just exit    bin bash --rcfile bin activate  If your shell supports it  you may also have the nonstandard source command  which should do the same thing as    but may not exist   All said  you should try to figure out why your environment is strange or it will cause you pain again in the future   By the way  you didn t need to chmod  x those files  Files only need to be executable if you want to execute them directly  In this case you re trying to launch them from    so they don t need it

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run this code it will get activated if you on a windows machine source venv Scripts activate

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Cd to the environment path  go to the bin folder  At this point when you use ls command  you should see the  activate  file   now type  source activate

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I had trouble getting running source  bin activate then I realized I was using tcsh as my terminal shell instead of bash   once I switched I was able to activate venv

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You forgot to do source bin activate where source is a executable name  Struck me first few times as well  easy to think that manual is telling  execute this from root of the environment folder     No need to make activate executable via chmod

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Go to the project directory  In my case microblog is the flask project directory and under microblog directory there should be app and venv folders  then run the below command  This is one worked for me in Ubuntu   source venv bin activate

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You can do   source   python env bin activate   or just go to the directory  cd  python env bin    and then   source   activate   Good Luck

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For Windows You can perform as   TO create the virtual env as  virtualenv envName    python python exe  if not create environment variable      To activate the virtual env      path to envName Scripts activate      To deactivate the virtual env      path to env Scripts deactivate   It fine works on the new python version

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Windows 10  In Windows these directories are created       To activate Virtual Environment in Windows 10   down scripts activate    scripts directory contain activate file   Linux Ubuntu   In Ubuntu these directories are created       To activate Virtual Environment in Linux Ubuntu   source   bin activate    bin directory contain activate file     Virtual Environment copied from Windows to Linux Ubuntu vice versa   If Virtual environment folder copied from Windows to Linux Ubuntu then according to directories   source   down Scripts activate

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Here is my workflow after creating a folder and cd ing into it     virtualenv venv --distribute New python executable in venv bin python Installing distribute         done  Installing pip                done    source venv bin activate  venv   python

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1- open powershell and navigate to your application folder  2- enter your virtualenv folder ex   cd   venv Scripts  3- active virtualenv by type   activate

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source virtualen name bin activate

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instead of   activate  use  source activate

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mkdir  lt YOURPROJECT gt   Create a new project    cd  lt YOURPROJECT gt  Change directory to that project    virtualenv  lt NEWVIRTUALENV gt  Creating new virtualenv    source  lt NEWVIRTUALENV gt  bin activate Activating that new virtualenv

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Probably a little late to post my answer here but still I ll post  it might benefit someone though   I had faced the same problem    The main reason being that I created the virtualenv as a  root  user But later was trying to activate it using another user   chmod won t work as you re not the owner of the file  hence the alternative is to use chown  to change the ownership   For e g      If you have your virtualenv created at  home abc ENV  Then CD to  home abc   and run the command   chown -Rv  user-to-whom-you want-change-ownership   folder filename whose ownership needs to be changed   In this example the commands would be   chown -Rv abc ENV  After the ownership is successfully changed you can simply run source  ENV bin   activate and your should be able to activate the virtualenv correctly

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Create your own Python virtual environment called  lt Your Env  name  gt    I have given it VE   git clone https   github com pypa virtualenv git python virtualenv py VE   To activate your new virtual environment  run  notice it s not    here      VE bin activate   Sample output  note prompt changed     VE c34299 a200dblr    Once your virtual environment is set  you can remove the Virtualenv repo

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On Mac  change shell to BASH  keep note that virtual env works only in bash shell     user host tools    venv bin activate      Command not found    user host tools  source venv bin activate  Badly placed    s    user host tools  bash  bash-3 2  source venv bin activate   venv  bash-3 2     Bingo   it worked  See prompt changed   On Ubuntu   user local host   tools  source toolsenv bin activate   toolsenv  user local host  tools     Note   prompt changed

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I would recommend virtualenvwrapper as well  It works wonders for me and how I always have problems with activating  http   virtualenvwrapper readthedocs org en latest

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