bash mkvirtualenv command not found

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After following the instructions on Doug Hellman s virtualenvwrapper post  I still could not fire up a test environment    mpenning tsunami     mkvirtualenv test -bash  mkvirtualenv  command not found  mpenning tsunami       It should be noted that I m using WORKON HOME that is not in my  HOME   I tried looking for  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh as shown in the virtualenvwrapper installation docs  but it does not exist   I m running CentOS 6 and python 2 6 6  if this matters       File     bash profile        export WORKON HOME   opt virtual env   source   opt virtual env bin virtualenvwrapper bashrc

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Try   source  which virtualenvwrapper sh    The backticks are command substitution - they take whatever the program prints out and put it in the expression  In this case  which  checks the  PATH to find virtualenvwrapper sh and outputs the path to it  The script is then read by the shell via  source    If you want this to happen every time you restart your shell  it s probably better to grab the output from the  which  command first  and then put the  source  line in your shell  something like this   echo  source  path to virtualenvwrapper sh   gt  gt     profile    This may differ slightly based on your shell  Also  be careful not to use the a single   as this will truncate your    profile  -o

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Solution 1   For some reason  virtualenvwrapper sh installed in  usr bin virtualenvwrapper sh  instead of under  usr local bin   The following in my  bash profile works     source   usr bin virtualenvwrapper sh  export WORKON HOME   opt virtual env     My install seems to work fine without sourcing virtualenvwrapper bashrc  Solution 2   Alternatively as mentioned below  you could leverage the chance that virtualenvwrapper sh is already in your shell s PATH and just issue a source  which virtualenvwrapper sh

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On Windows 10  to create the virtual environment  I replace  pip mkvirtualenv myproject  by  mkvirtualenv myproject  and that works well

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Since I just went though a drag  I ll try to write the answer I d have wished for two hours ago  This is for people who don t just want the copy amp paste solution First  Do you wonder why copying and pasting paths works for some people while it doesn t work for others    The main reason  solutions differ are different python versions  2 x or 3 x  There are actually distinct versions of virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper that work with either python 2 or 3  If you are on python 2 install like so  sudo pip install virutalenv sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper  If you are planning to use python 3 install the related python 3 versions sudo pip3 install virtualenv sudo pip3 install virtualenvwrapper  You ve successfully installed the packages for your python version and are all set  right  Well  try it  Type workon into your terminal  Your terminal will not be able to find the command  workon is a command of virtualenvwrapper   Of course it won t  Workon is an executable that will only be available to you once you load source the file virtualenvwrapper sh  But the official installation guide has you covered on this one  right   Just open your  bash profile and insert the following  it says in the documentation  export WORKON HOME  HOME  virtualenvs export PROJECT HOME  HOME Devel source  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh  Especially the command source  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh seems helpful since the command seems to load source the desired file virtualenvwrapper sh that contains all the commands you want to work with like workon and mkvirtualenv  But yeah  no  When following the official installation guide  you are very likely to receive the error from the initial post  mkvirtualenv  command not found  Still no command is being found and you are still frustrated  So whats the problem here  The problem is that virtualenvwrapper sh is not were you are looking for it right now  Short reminder     you are looking here  source  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh  But there is a pretty straight forward way to finding the desired file  Just type which virtualenvwrapper  to your terminal  This will search your PATH for the file  since it is very likely to be in some folder that is included in the PATH of your system  If your system is very exotic  the desired file will hide outside of a PATH folder  In that case you can find the path to virtalenvwrapper sh with the shell command find   -name virtualenvwrapper sh Your result may look something like this   Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 3 7 bin virtualenvwrapper sh Congratulations  You have found your missing file   Now all you have to do is changing one command in your  bash profile  Just change  source  quot  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh quot   to   quot  Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 3 7 bin virtualenvwrapper sh quot   Congratulations  Virtualenvwrapper does now work on your system  But you can do one more thing to enhance your solution  If you ve found the file virtualenvwrapper sh with the command which virtualenvwrapper sh you know that it is inside of a folder of the PATH  So if you just write the filename  your file system will assume the file is inside of a PATH folder  So you you don t have to write out the full path  Just type  source  quot virtualenvwrapper sh quot   Thats it  You are no longer frustrated  You have solved your problem  Hopefully

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Prerequisites to execute this command -  pip  recursive acronym of Pip Installs Packages   is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python  Many packages can be found in the Python Package Index  PyPI   sudo apt-get install python-pip  Install Virtual Environment  Used to create virtual environment  to install packages and dependencies of multiple projects isolated from each other  sudo pip install virtualenv  Install virtual environment wrapper About virtual env wrapper sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper   After Installing prerequisites you need to bring virtual environment wrapper into action to create virtual environment  Following are the steps -  set virtual environment directory in path variable- export WORKON HOME  directory you need to save envs   source  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh -p  WORKON HOME   As mentioned by  Mike  source  which virtualenvwrapper sh  or which virtualenvwrapper sh can used to locate virtualenvwrapper sh file  It s best to put above two lines in    bashrc to avoid executing the above commands every time you open new shell  That s all you need to create environment using mkvirtualenv Points to keep in mind -  Under Ubuntu  you may need install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper as root  Simply prefix the command above with sudo  Depending on the process used to install virtualenv  the path to virtualenvwrapper sh may vary  Find the appropriate path by running   find  usr -name virtualenvwrapper sh  Adjust the line in your  bash profile or  bashrc script accordingly

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In order to successfully install the virtualenvwrapper on Ubuntu 18 04 3 you need to do the following    Install virtualenv  sudo apt install virtualenv  Install  virtualenvwrapper  sudo pip install virtualenv sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper  Add the following to the end of the  bashrc file  export WORKON HOME   virtualenvs export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER PYTHON  usr bin python source    local bin virtualenvwrapper sh  Execute the  bashrc file  source    bashrc  Create your virtualenv  mkvirtualenv your virtualenv

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On Windows 7 and Git Bash this helps me    Create a    bashrc file  under your user home folder  Add line export WORKON HOME  HOME  virtualenvs  you must create this folder if it doesn t exist  Add line source  C  Program Files  x86  Python36-32 Scripts virtualenvwrapper sh   change path for your virtualenvwrapper sh    Restart your git bash and mkvirtualenv command now will work nicely

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Using Git Bash on Windows 10 and Python36 for Windows I found the virtualenvwrapper sh in a slightly different place and running this resolved the issue  source virtualenvwrapper sh   c users  myUserName  AppData Local Programs Python36 Scripts

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Use this procedure to create virtual env in ubuntu Step 1 Install pip    sudo apt-get install python-pip  step 2 Install virtualenv    sudo pip install virtualenv  step 3 Create a dir to store your virtualenvs  I use    virtualenvs     mkdir    virtualenvs  or use this command to install specific version of python in env virtualenv -p  usr bin python3 6 venv  step 4    sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper  step 5    sudo nano    bashrc  step 6 Add this two line code at the end of the bashrc file   export WORKON HOME    virtualenvs   source  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh  step 7 Open new terminal  recommended  step 8 Create a new virtualenv   mkvirtualenv myawesomeproject  step 9 To load or switch between virtualenvs  use the workon command    workon myawesomeproject  step 10 To exit your new virtualenv  use  deactivate  and make sure using pip vs pip3 OR follow the steps below to install virtual environment using python3 Install env python3 -m venv my-project-env  and activate your virtual environment using the following command  source my-project-env bin activate  or if you want particular python version virtualenv --python python3 7 5 myenv

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Solved my issue in Ubuntu 14 04 OS with python 2 7 6  by adding below two lines into    bash profile  or    bashrc in unix  files   source   usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh   export WORKON HOME   opt virtual env    And then executing both these lines onto the terminal

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I had the same issue on OS X 10 9 1 with python 2 7 5   No issues with WORKON HOME for me  but I did have to manually add source   usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh  to    bash profile  or    bashrc in unix  after I ran pip install virtualenvwrapper

[python] bash: mkvirtualenv: command not found

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