Virtualenv Command Not Found

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I couldn t get virtualenv to work despite various attempts  I installed virtualenv on MAC OS X using   pip install virtualenv   and have also added the PATH into my  bash profile  Every time I try to run the virtualenv command  it returns   -bash  virtualenv  command not found   Every time I run pip install virtualenv  it returns   Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   virtualenv in  Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 2 7 lib python2 7 site-packages   I understand that in mac  the virtualenv should be correctly installed in    usr local bin   The virtualenv is indeed installed in  usr local bin  but whenever I try to run the virtualenv command  the command is not found  I ve also tried to run the virtualenv command in the directory  usr local bin  and it gives me the same result    -bash  virtualenv  command not found   These are the PATHs I added to my  bash profile  export PATH  PATH  usr local bin export PATH  PATH  usr local bin python export PATH  PATH  Library Framework Python framework Version 2 7 lib site-packages   Any workarounds for this  Why is this the case

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I think your problem can be solved using a simple symbolic link  but you are creating the symbolic link to the wrong file  As far as I know virtualenv is installed to  Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 2 7 bin virtualenv   you can change the numbers for your Python version  so the command for creating the symbolic link should be   ln -s  Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 2 7 bin virtualenv  usr local bin virtualenv

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I had same problem on Mac OS X El Capitan   When I installed virtualenv like that sudo pip3 install virtualenv I didn t have virtualenv under my command line   I solved this problem by following those steps    Uninstall previous installations  Switch to super user account prior to virtualenv installation by calling sudo su Install virtualenv by calling pip3 install virtualenv Finally you should be able to access virtualenv from both user and super user account

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If you installed it with  pip install virtualenv   You need to run  sudo  usr bin easy install virtualenv   which puts it in  usr local bin    The above directory by default should be in your PATH  otherwise  edit your  zshrc  or  bashrc  accordingly

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Personally  I did the same steps you did on a fresh Ubuntu 20 installation  except that I used pip3   I got the same problem  and I remember I solved it this way  python3 -m virtualenv venv   Link to understand the -m  lt module-name gt  notation

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python3 -m virtualenv virtualenv name  python -m virtualenv virtualenv name

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The simplest answer  Just   pip uninstall virtualenv   and then   pip install virtualenv   Or you maybe installed virtualenv with sudo  in that case   pip install --user virtualenv

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On ubuntu 18 4 on AWS installation with pip don t work correctly   Using apt-get install the problem was solved for me   sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv   and to check   virtualenv --version

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I had troubles because I used apt to install python-virtualenv package  To get it working I had to remove this package with apt-get remove python-virtualenv and install it with pip install virtualenv

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Same problem  So I just did pip uninstall virtualenv Then  pip install virtualenv  pip install virtualenv --user   Collecting virtualenv   Using cached https   files pythonhosted org packages b6 30 96a02b2287098b23b875bc8c2f58071c35d2efe84f747b64d523721dc2b5 virtualenv-16 0 0-py2 py3-none-any whl Installing collected packages  virtualenv  Then I got this       The script virtualenv is installed in   Users brahim Library Python 2 7 bin  which is not on PATH      Consider adding this directory to PATH or  if you prefer to suppress this warning  use --no-warn-script-location    which clearly says where it is installed and what to do to get it

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apt update apt upgrade apt install ufw python virtualenv git unzip pv   3 commands and everything working

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On Ubuntu 18 04 LTS I also faced same error  Following command worked   sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

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Figure out the problem  Try installing with the --verbose flag  pip install virtualenv --verbose   Output will look something like this         Using cached virtualenv-15 1 0-py2 py3-none-any whl   Downloading from URL https   pypi python org packages 6f 86 3dc328ee7b1a6419ebfac7896d882fba83c48e3561d22ddddf38294d3e83 virtualenv-15 1 0-py2 py3-none-any whl md5 aa7e5b86cc8cdb99794c4b99e8d670f3  from https   pypi python org simple virtualenv   Installing collected packages  virtualenv    changing mode of  home manos  local bin virtualenv to 755 Successfully installed virtualenv-15 1 0 Cleaning up      From the output we can see that it s installed at  home manos  local bin virtualenv so let s ensure PATH includes that   echo  PATH  usr local sbin  usr local bin  usr sbin  usr bin  sbin  bin  usr games  usr local games  snap bin   In my case we can clearly see that  home manos  local bin is totally missing and that s why the shell can t find the program   Solutions  We can solve this in many ways    We can install directly to a specific directory by fiddling with pip options  not recomended   Create appropriate symlinks at  usr local bin or similar  Append  home manos  local bin to PATH  Install as sudo to install directly to  usr local bin   The two last options are probably the most sensible  The last solution is the simplest so therefore I will just show solution 3   Add this to    profile   PATH   PATH  HOME  local bin    Logout out and in again and it should work

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You said that every time you run the pip install you get Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   virtualenv in  Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 2 7 lib python2 7 site-packages  What you need to do is the following    Change Directory  go to to the one where the virtualenv py   cd  Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 2 7 lib python2 7 site-packages If you do an ls you will see that the script is there virtualenv py Run the script like this  python virtualenv py --distribute  the path at which you want the new venv at theNameOfTheNewVirtualEnv   Hope this helps  My advice would be to research venvs more  Here is a good resource  https   www dabapps com blog introduction-to-pip-and-virtualenv-python

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Follow these basic steps to setup the virtual env  sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper sudo rm -rf   get-pip py    cache pip   we need to update our    bashrc  export WORKON HOME  HOME  virtualenvs source  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh   The    bashrc file is simply a shell script that Bash runs whenever you launch a new terminal  You normally use this file to set various configurations  In this case  we are setting an environment variable called WORKON HOME  to point to the directory where our Python virtual environments live  We then load any necessary configurations from virtualenvwrapper    To update your    bashrc file simply use a standard text editor  nano  is likely the easiest to operate  A more simple solution is to use the cat  command and avoid editors entirely   echo -e   n  virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper   gt  gt     bashrc echo  export WORKON HOME  HOME  virtualenvs   gt  gt     bashrc echo  source  usr local bin virtualenvwrapper sh   gt  gt     bashrc   After editing our    bashrc  file  we need to reload the changes   source    bashrc   Now that we have installed virtualenv  and virtualenvwrapper   the next step is to actually create the Python virtual environment     we do this using the mkvirtualenv  command   mkvirtualenv YOURENV

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Make sure that you are using sudo  In this case  at first you need to uninstall the pipenv and then install again using sudo command   pip uninstall pipenv sudo pip install pipenv

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I faced the same issue and this is how I solved it    The issue occurred to me because I installed virtualenv via pip as a regular user  not root   pip installed the packages into the directory    local lib pythonX X site-packages When I ran pip as root or with admin privileges  sudo   it installed packages in  usr lib pythonX X dist-packages  This path might be different for you  virtualenv command gets recognized only in the second scenario So  to solve the issue  do pip uninstall virtualenv and then reinstall it with sudo pip install virtualenv  or install as root

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sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

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If you re using Linux  open your terminal and type virtualenv halfway and autocomplete with tab key  If there s no auto-completion install virtualenv on your system by running     mycomp sudo apt-get install virtualenv   if you re already super user  mycomp apt-get install virtualenv   You can now navigate to where you want to create your project and do   myprj pip3 install virtualenv       to install python 3 5 and above   myprj virtualenv venv --python python3 5     to activate virtualenv    venv myprj source venv bin activate    venv myprj deactivate

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For me it was installed in this path  python 2 7 on MacOS    HOME Library Python 2 7 bin

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this works in ubuntu 18 and above  not tested in previous versions    sudo apt install python3-virtualenv

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Found this solution and this worked perfectly for me  sudo -H pip install virtualenv  The -H sets it to the HOME directory  which seems to be the issue for most people

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In my case  I ran pip show virtualenv to get the information about virtualenv package  I will look similar to this and will also show location of the package   user machine    pip show virtualenv Name  virtualenv Version  16 2 0 Summary  Virtual Python Environment builder Home-page  https   virtualenv pypa io  Author  Ian Bicking Author-email  ianb colorstudy com License  MIT Location   home user  local lib python3 6 site-packages Requires  setuptools   From that grab the part of location up to the  local part  which in this case is  home user  local   You can find virtualenv command under  home user  local bin virtualenv   You can then run commands like  home user  local bin virtualenv newvirtualenv

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Simple answer is that if you are not a sudo user as I was not one You need to add path of your bin folder   home myusername  local bin  So basically the command line searches in which of these path is the command which you have typed   export PATH  home b18150  local bin  usr bin  bin   here it will search in local bin first then  usr bin and then  bin

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I had the same problem for a long time   I solved it by running these two commands  first is to install second is to activate the env   python3 -m pip install virtualenv python3 -m virtualenv yourenvname   Note that I m using python3  you can change it to just python if python3 fails   Thanks

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I m doing Angela Yu s online iOS course and I was getting same problem plus also was getting permission denied error 13 when I was trying to run virtualenv --python   myPath   newVirtualEnvName   I solved it by    switching to sudo user sudo su navigating to my destination folder  where I want my new virtual env to live  ie   Users muUserName Environments  run command python -m virtualenv python27 where python27 is a name of my new virtual environment above created folder pathon27 in my Environments folder  and then I was able to run source python27 bin activate to start my virtualenv

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I had the same issue  I used the following steps to make it work  sudo pip uninstall virtualenv  sudo -H pip install virtualenv   That is it  It started working   Usage of sudo -H----  sudo -H   set HOME variable to target user s home dir

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Ensure that virtualenv is executable   If virtualenv is not found  running the full path   usr local bin virtualenv  should work

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