setting up environment in virtaulenv using python3 stuck on setuptools, pip, wheel

Question

Running the following:

virtualenv -p python3 venv

gives:

Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python3
Using base prefi         


        

Answer 1

Your stack trace indicates you are using virtualenv from your 2.7 installation. This would indicate that your PATH is not set for 3.x. Start a new shell, set the PATH so that /usr/local/lib/python2.7 is not on it, and try again.