What's the difference between apt-get virtualenv and pip virtualenv?

Question

What\'s the difference between the virtualenv from apt-get and that from pip? Are they interchangeable?

apt-get install virtualenv

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Answer 1

apt or apt-get - installer debian similar distributions and install the packages in the directory /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.

pip install - python package manager and install the packages in the directory /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

Both directories are in the path of python that it is looking for modules import.

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',  '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7']