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Juan Perez
Courses Plus Student 8,944 PointsProblem with Installing and Using VirtualEnv
Hello all,
I don't know why this is happening because I have installed it before and worked on it before (my computer was repaired by apple). So Im trying to install virtual env and It doesn't install correctly I get some error messages. that are :
ā pip install virtualenv
Collecting virtualenv
Using cached virtualenv-15.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: virtualenv
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 317, in run
prefix=options.prefix_path,
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 742, in install
**kwargs
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 831, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1032, in move_wheel_files
isolated=self.isolated,
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 346, in move_wheel_files
clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 324, in clobber
shutil.copyfile(srcfile, destfile)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile
with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py'
When I install using sudo, It works fine, but when I create the virtualenv , go into it and install django it doesn't create the directories and files it is supposed to (django-admin.py, manage.py, ect ect...).
How can I fix this problem? How can I know what the problem really is?
5 Answers
Juan Perez
Courses Plus Student 8,944 PointsOK. I believe I got it working for py3.
I hate how I have to stay stuck with py2 on my machine. Cant I just replace it or upgrade it and not have to versions installed?
Thanks alot for your help.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherYeah, you're having to use sudo because that's using the system-wide Python (which, note, is 2.7, not 3.x).
Running pip install django shouldn't create manage.py or anything, it just installs Django into site-packages. Can you do django-admin.py startproject foo after you pip install django?
Juan Perez
Courses Plus Student 8,944 PointsCant get anything to work on my side. Im actually on frustration mode.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherSo, you do sudo pip install virtualenv to install the virtualenv library.
Then, wherever you're gonna build your code, virtualenv env to create a virtualenv named "env".
source env/bin/activate to turn on the virtualenv.
pip install django to install the Django library.
And, finally, django-admin.py startproject something to create a Django project named "something".
Which part of that sequence is failing for you?
Juan Perez
Courses Plus Student 8,944 PointsKenneth Love all of them. By any chance do you think it would be because im using zsh instead of bash?