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gromiczek
gromiczek

Reputation: 3020

Why are these installed packages not found in Cygwin?

I've installed Cygwin and Python in Windows, but now having added both pip and virtualenv packages, when I try to use them in the Cygwin command line I get -bash: pip: command not found and the same message for virtualenv. When I run python -m ensurepip it says the requirement is already satisfied. But when I go back to use it again, it is still missing.

Could it have something to do with where I've stored the local package directory? It's not in my main Cygwin directory.

I am new to Cygwin, so I could be missing something obvious. Thoughts?

UPDATE: I found pip. It's called pip2, so when I called pip, nothing happened. So this leads me to wonder if virtualenv has an alternate name as well. I did a pip2 freeze and virtualenv is indeed installed but I still can't seem to call it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 351

Answers (1)

gromiczek
gromiczek

Reputation: 3020

It turns out I could not call pip or virtualenv because they were from packages for Python 2.7 and had been renamed to pip2 and virtualenv-2.7 and have to be called that way in the command line. I'm reviving an old project with old requirements, so I'm using this older version of Python.

Upvotes: 3

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