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Aaron Cheung
Aaron Cheung

Reputation: 431

There is no activate when I am trying to run my virtual env

1) I installed virtualenv using pip.
2) I ran the command virtualenv venv
3) Then I ran source venv/bin/activate but it says that there is no such file or directory.

When I cd into venv/bin I find 3 things - python, python 2.7, and python 3.5. Does anyone know the problem?

Upvotes: 41

Views: 74763

Answers (11)

Danny Varod
Danny Varod

Reputation: 18118

One possible cause is if you attempted to delete a virtualenv with the same name and it did not complete get removed due to a running python instance.

The creation of a new virtualenv will not be complete if an existing virtualenv with the same name partially exists.

If this happens, kill the python process running from that specific virtualenv's folder, then delete that folder, then try again.

Upvotes: 0

Nabin Bhusal
Nabin Bhusal

Reputation: 137

  1. Install Virtualenv: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/installation.html
  2. Create virtual environment: virtualenv venv -p python3
  3. Activate: source venv/bin/activate

Upvotes: -1

Michael Boesl
Michael Boesl

Reputation: 266

I had this same problem with virtualenv and python3.11.

Everytime i tried to create the venv with

  • virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3.11 venv

there was no bin folder.

Installing virtualenv with the right pip first, solved the problem for me:

python3.11 -m pip install --upgrade virtualenv
virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3.11 venv

Upvotes: 0

jojeyh
jojeyh

Reputation: 577

This is old but just wanted to add an answer that might be the case, though I can't be sure.

However this same thing happened to me when I accidentally ran python -m venv venv before installing python-venv (change according to your python version) in Ubuntu. Most likely after I installed python-venv and ran it again it didn't overwrite the existing venv folder. Had to remove manually and rerun command.

Upvotes: 2

Dustin Wyatt
Dustin Wyatt

Reputation: 4244

I had this happen on rasbian when I hadn't installed python3-pip before creating the venv.

Upvotes: 2

WhaSukGO
WhaSukGO

Reputation: 713

According to Python doc, the installation step is

$ python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

$ python3 -m venv env

The last command gives a warning message,

The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available.  On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.

    apt-get install python3-venv

You may need to use sudo with that command.  After installing the python3-venv
package, recreate your virtual environment.

$ sudo apt-get install python3-venv

Now, activate is available.

Upvotes: 16

jiaqi jiang
jiaqi jiang

Reputation: 531

i have had the same problem. and what i did is just run the command virtualenv env again. And then more files were generated under directory env/bin, including the activate file. it's so weird.

Upvotes: 43

Paulemberg Lima Silva
Paulemberg Lima Silva

Reputation: 81

I solved the similar problem running python3.7 -m venv venv, you can change for your version of python that is installed in your enviroment.

Upvotes: 8

Brenton Carbins
Brenton Carbins

Reputation: 11

I experienced this problem when using the --upgrade option. Removed the option, and all ran as expected.

Upvotes: 1

Xiaoquan Li
Xiaoquan Li

Reputation: 51

I double it is caused by some networking issue, I run it twice to get 'activate' script installed. Maybe first it can't connect to some source so it just abort installation.

Upvotes: 0

Steve Scott
Steve Scott

Reputation: 1522

I solved a similar problem by naming it venv2 when I ran virtualenv. I already had a virtual environment named venv for another project. This allowed me to proceed.

Upvotes: 1

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