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vicubso
vicubso

Reputation: 593

Installing venv for python3 in WSL (Ubuntu)

I am trying to configure venv on Windows Subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu.

What I have tried:

1) Installing venv through pip (pip3, to be exact)

pip3 install venv

I get the following error

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement venv (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for venv

2) Installing venv through apt and apt-get

sudo apt install python3-venv

In this case the installation seems to complete, but when I try to create a virtual environment with python3 -m venv ./venv, I get an error, telling me to do apt-get install python3-venv (which I just did!)

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.

Failing command: ['/mnt/c/Users/Vicubso/.../code/venv/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']

I have also read the following posts post 1, post 2, and several others. None of these seem to solve my problem.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 49

Views: 83118

Answers (6)

trpt4him
trpt4him

Reputation: 1906

Nothing here worked for me, but this did in WSL2:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-venv
python3 -m venv whatever

Good luck!

Upvotes: 78

werber bang
werber bang

Reputation: 333

You need to install also python3.8-venv via sudo apt install python3.8-venv

this fixed the problem for me.

Upvotes: 0

Marvin Zelaya
Marvin Zelaya

Reputation: 1

I was getting the same error message, I have WSL(Ubuntu) installed on my computer, finally I found this doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/python/web-frameworks#open-a-wsl---remote-window Ironically the only difference from what I was using as command was the name, I was using venv, then I run the command again using .venv so that the files become hidden files instead, and it worked. Hopefully it'll help someone else :)

Upvotes: 0

kangbo
kangbo

Reputation: 71

The error occurs when you're in /mnt/XXX (under Windows part).

Switch to Linux part by cd and run python3 -m venv ./venv again and that should be fine

Upvotes: 7

Rollie
Rollie

Reputation: 4752

This was more of a headache than it needed to be. It seems that it relates to WSL<->Windows file system mapping issues. This blog post perhaps describes it better, but the net is you need to store additional metadata with files on a particular mount, as described in this MS devblog.

I fixed the issue by running:

sudo umount /mnt/c
sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata

After which I was able to create python venv without needing to sudo.

Upvotes: 16

Data_Is_Everything
Data_Is_Everything

Reputation: 2016

Give this approach a shot:

Install the pip:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Install the virtual environment:

sudo pip install virtualenv

Store your virtual environments somewhere:

mkdir ~/.storevirtualenvs

Now you should be able to create a new virtualenv

virtualenv -p python3 yourVenv

To activate:

source yourVenv/bin/activate

To exit your new virtualenv, just deactivate

Upvotes: 50

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