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Python Setting Up a Local Python Environment Installing Python and Python Libraries Locally Using virtualenv

Posted by Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
9,758 Points

-bash: activate: command not found

Hi everyone, I'm running source path/to/venv/bin/activate and I get: -bash: activate: command not found

In my particular case path is under my username, that is:

Users ▸ username ▸ intro ▸ bin

so while located at '/Users/username' I type (in my case venv is called "intro") and is not working

I also tried locating myself at username/intro/bin to then execute 'activate' and same error.

Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
9,758 Points

Actually I just opened the activate file and it says

This file must be used with "source bin/activate" from bash

you cannot run it directly

so..., I did "source bin/activate" and it works.

2 Answers

Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
9,758 Points
Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
9,758 Points

Yes strange but it was explicit on the file that it should have run using bin / activate