I created an environment with the following command: virtualenv venv --distribute
I cannot remove it with the following command: rmvirtualenv venv
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This is part of virtualenvwrapper as mentioned in answer below for virtualenvwrapper
I do an ls
on my current directory and I still see venv
The only way I can remove it seems to be: sudo rm -rf venv
Note that the environment is not active. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10. Any ideas? I've tried rebooting my system to no avail.
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If you're a windows user, you can also delete the environment by going to: C:/Users/username/Anaconda3/envs
Here you can see a list of virtual environment and delete the one that you no longer need.
deactivate
is the command you are looking for. Like what has already been said, there is no command for deleting your virtual environment. Simply deactivate it!
from virtualenv's official document https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/userguide/
Removing an Environment
Removing a virtual environment is simply done by deactivating it and deleting the environment folder with all its contents:
(ENV)$ deactivate $ rm -r /path/to/ENV
I used pyenv uninstall my_virt_env_name
to delete the virual environment.
Note: I'm using pyenv-virtualenv installed through the install script.
You can remove all the dependencies by recursively uninstalling all of them and then delete the venv.
Edit including Isaac Turner commentary
source venv/bin/activate
pip freeze > requirements.txt
pip uninstall -r requirements.txt -y
deactivate
rm -r venv/
There is no command to remove a virtualenv so you need to do that by hand, you will need to deactivate
if you have it on and remove the folder:
deactivate
rm -rf <env name>
When you create an environment the python uses the current version by default, so if you want another one you will need to specify at the moment you are creating it. To make and env. with Python 3.7 called MyEnv
just type:
python3.7 -m venv MyEnv
Now to make with Python 2.X use virtualenv
instead of venv
:
python2.7 -m virtualenv MyEnv
If any of the previous lines of code didn't worked you probably don't have the specific version installed. First list all your versions with:
ls -ls /usr/bin/python*
If you didn't find it, install Python 3.7 using apt-get
:
sudo apt-get install python3.7
And with yum
:
sudo yum install python3
pip install --upgrade pip
if you are windows user, then it's in C:\Users\your_user_name\Envs. You can delete it from there.
Also try in command prompt rmvirtualenv environment name.
I tried with command prompt so it said deleted but it was still existed. So i manually delete it.
Use rmvirtualenv
Remove an environment, in the $WORKON_HOME
.
Syntax:
rmvirtualenv ENVNAME
You must use deactivate before removing the current environment.
$ rmvirtualenv my_env
Reference: http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
Simply remove the virtual environment from the system.There's no special command for it
rm -rf venv
If you are using pyenv, it is possible to delete your virtual environment:
$ pyenv virtualenv-delete <name>
You can follow these steps to remove all the files associated with virtualenv and then reinstall the virtualenv again and using it
cd {python virtualenv folder}
find {broken virtualenv}/ -type l ## to list out all the links
deactivate ## deactivate if virtualenv is active
find {broken virtualenv}/ -type l -delete ## to delete the broken links
virtualenv {broken virtualenv} --python=python3 ## recreate links to OS's python
workon {broken virtualenv} ## activate & workon the fixed virtualenv
pip3 install ... {other packages required for the project}
Just to echo what @skytreader had previously commented, rmvirtualenv
is a command provided by virtualenvwrapper
, not virtualenv
. Maybe you didn't have virtualenvwrapper
installed?
See VirtualEnvWrapper Command Reference for more details.
If you are a Windows user and you are using conda to manage the environment in Anaconda prompt, you can do the following:
Make sure you deactivate the virtual environment or restart Anaconda Prompt. Use the following command to remove virtual environment:
$ conda env remove --name $MyEnvironmentName
Alternatively, you can go to the
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\MYENVIRONMENTNAME
(that's the default file path) and delete the folder manually.
step 1: delete virtualenv virtualenvwrapper by copy and paste the following command below:
$ sudo pip uninstall virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
step 2: go to .bashrc and delete all virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
open terminal:
$ sudo nano .bashrc
scroll down and you will see the code bellow then delete it.
# virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
next, source the .bashrc:
$ source ~/.bashrc
FINAL steps: without terminal/shell go to /home and find .virtualenv
(I forgot the name so if your find similar to .virtualenv
or .venv
just delete it. That will work.
The following command works for me.
rm -rf /path/to/virtualenv
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