Reputation: 431
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: 74483
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
Reputation: 137
virtualenv venv -p python3
source venv/bin/activate
Upvotes: -1
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
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
Reputation: 4244
I had this happen on rasbian when I hadn't installed python3-pip
before creating the venv.
Upvotes: 2
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
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
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
Reputation: 11
I experienced this problem when using the --upgrade
option. Removed the option, and all ran as expected.
Upvotes: 1
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
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