Django not installing in virtualenv

Question

I am using Linux (Lubuntu) and have installed virtualenv like so

sudo easy_install virtualenv

and then did

mkdir virt_env
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Answer 1

Try cd'ing to the virt1 directory and then running "bin/pip install django". You are using your system wide pip instead of the one in virt1/bin.

virtualenv creates four directories(bin, include, lib, local) when you initialize it in a directory. "lib" is the directory where virtualenv keeps all your virtualenv specific python packages. Use bin/pip to install django and you will find Django it in lib/python2.x/site-packages/

When looking for python packages installed in the environment, use "bin/pip freeze" instead of the "pip freeze".

Steps:

>> mkdir virtualenv_test
>> cd virtualenv_test
>> virutalenv . --no-site-packages
>> source bin/activate
>> bin/pip install django
>> bin/pip freeze