I'm not sure if this should be here or in a python board however since this isn't happening anywhere else except on an Ubuntu 16.04 system I thought it might be the right place.
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 server set up with Amazon Ec2.
I have installed python3.6 using the first option in the best answer here:
How do I install Python 3.6 using apt-get?
I also installed pip3 using this method:
apt-get install python3-pip Using pip3 I installed virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
pip3 install virtualenv pip3 install virtualenvwrapper I set my virtualenv directory to the home directory by adding this to my .bashrc file
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenv Then reloading bash using source ~/.bashrc
This all works fine.
The next step when I try and run
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh Which is suggested by the packages website and several askubuntu articles example I get this error:
-su: /usr/local/bin/python3: No such file or directory virtualenvwrapper.sh: There was a problem running the initialization hooks. If Python could not import the module virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader, check that virtualenvwrapper has been installed for VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python3 and that PATH is set properly. Firstly what does this mean and how is it resolved?
The next issue seems related.
It does seem I now have access to virtualenvwrapper commands.
When I run
mkvirtualenv test
The env is created in the expected location however I get the following output with and error:
Using base prefix '/usr' New python executable in /home/web/.virtualenvs/test/bin/python3 Not overwriting existing python script /home/web/.virtualenvs/test/bin/python (you must use /home/web/.virtualenvs/test/bin/python3) Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done. virtualenvwrapper_run_hook:12: permission denied: 1 Answer
I think you just need to set the VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON variable to be python3 before you run the virtualenvwrapper command.
So just add:
VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON='/usr/bin/python3' source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh to your .bashrc.
