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Nitin Vijay
Nitin Vijay

Reputation: 475

How to upgrade the package in virtual environment only in Python?

I have created the virtual env. I am able to see the list of packages installed using the following command

pip freeze > my-awesome-env-req.txt

Now, I want to upgrade a particular package in virtual environment. I ran the following command after successfully activating my virtual env.

pip install upgrade sqlalchemy

The package is upgraded both in the global and virtual environment.

I want the package to be upgraded for virtual environment only.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 12101

Answers (3)

MMK21
MMK21

Reputation: 89

You should ensure that you're using the virtual environment's Python binary. For example, if you're in the root directory of the venv, you can run

./bin/python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade sqlalchemy

to upgrade the sqlalchemy package in the venv. Otherwise, running the pip or python3.* command could use the system-wide binary (depending on how your $PATH and shell aliases are set up).

Upvotes: 1

w15p
w15p

Reputation: 39

You need to create the virtual environment with a new installation of Python and pip. eg:

conda create -n myVirtualEnv python pip
source activate myVirtualEnv
pip install upgrade sqlalchemy

Ran into the same problem with seaborn...

Upvotes: 0

dartdog
dartdog

Reputation: 10862

you need to execute the pip command from within the Activated Virtual env..

Upvotes: 1

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