Why I am suddenly seeing `Usage: source deactivate` whenever I run virtualenvwrapper commands?

Question

I never used to see this message before when using virtualenvwrapper, but now I\'m suddenly seeing this message whenever I run, say, mkvirtualenv

Answer 1

Anaconda already knows where activate and the different environments are so virtualenvwrapper isn't needed.

All virtualenvwrapper seems to provide on Mac is the workon shortcut to source activate, you can use an alias in your bash.rc file and uninstall virtualenvwrapper.

Just add the alias line below where you add ~/anaconda/bin to your path like the example below.

# added by Anaconda3 4.3.1 installer
export PATH="$HOME/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

# Add workon alias here!
alias workon='source activate'

Now when I run 'workon Django', it runs my Anaconda Django virtual env without reminding me that 'source deactivate' is the way to exit.

If you didn't catch that, to exit the virtual env just run 'source deactivate'