How to add virtualenv to path

Question

I am trying to find out why my virtualenv and/or virtualenv wrapper - installed using pip using homebrew - cannot be foun

Answer 1

In your .bashrc you need to have:

export WORKON_HOME=~/.virtualenvs
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Answer 2

This solution will give you an alternate tool to use and solve your virtualenv problem at the same time.

Use pythonbrew. It is inspired from rvm in the ruby world and is helpful in managing pythons on your system and also wrap virtualenv commands to provide virtual environment management. I use it Mountain Lion for my development purposes and have had no problems. More details (on my blog): http://stacktoheap.com/blog/2013/03/11/why-use-virtualenv-when-there-is-pythonbrew/

Answer 3

(Mac / Linux specific) So I got an error message when I did a pip3 install --user --upgrade virtualenv telling me that I did not have Users/home/Library/Python/3.7/bin in my PATH. So I simply added it.

If this is on the Mac, the following did it for me

vi ~/.bash_profile



PATH="/Users/home/Library/Python/3.7/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:${PATH}"

restart your terminal and type virtualenv env and that should do it.

Answer 4

For those with Python 2.7, I came across this as well, and solved it by simply putting the following line into the \etc\paths file (may need to $ sudo chmod it first):

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin

Save the change and start a new Terminal session. Check it with echo $PATH

Answer 5

Had the same issue after pip install virtualenv

When I inspected python ls -la /usr/local/bin/python I found it was symbolically linked to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python

When I cd in that directory I also found the virtualenv executable and

Fixed it by

1. cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin
2. ln virtualenv /usr/local/bin/virtualenv

Sidenote: I also happen to have a python installation in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin

I believe that's the one that came with OSX

Answer 6

The module in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages is imported by a short script that uses pkg_resources.load_entry_point to run the application. The utility script should be in /usr/local/bin.