'virtualenv' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Question

i\'m completely new to the python and django.,after installation of python and django. i\'m trying to use virtualenv for django project purpose using virtula env . i install

Answer 1

When I ran the pip install virtualenv command I got:

Requirement already satisfied: virtualenv in c:\directory\to\appdata\roaming\python\python36\site-packages

so I tried forcing upgrade:

pip install --upgrade --force virtualenv

Answer 2

To install to a specific folder e.g E:\publish

pip install virtualenv

virtualenv .

Answer 3

Try executing virtualenv.exe from its absolute path, like in my case i found it in C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\Scripts\virtualenv.exe.

I tried this and it worked, here refer the logs as follows:

Using base prefix 'c:\users\\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32' New python executable in C:\somedir\dir2\dir3\ML_1\ml\env\Scripts\python.exe Installing setuptools, pip, wheel... done.

Answer 4

Run pip uninstall virtualenv and then pip install virtualenv

Answer 5

Run CMD as administrator and then enter

pip uninstall virtualenv

then re-run CMD as administrator and run

pip install virtualenv