Where is virtualenvwrapper.sh after pip install?

Question

I\'m trying to setup virtualenvwrapper on OSX, and all the instructions and tutorials I\'ve found tell me to add a source command to .profile, pointing towards virtualenvwra

Answer 1

Have you installed it using sudo? Was the error in my case.

Answer 2

For RPM-based distributions(like Fedora 19), after running the sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper command, you may find the file at:

/usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Answer 3

/usr/share/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper.sh

I've installed it on Ubuntu 16.04 and it resulted in this location.

Answer 4

I can find one in macOS Mojave (10.14) while playing with virtualenvwrapper-4.8.4

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Answer 5

I had the same issue in with the beagle bone black(debian).

Manually downloading the package and installing worked for me.

Answer 6

pip will not try to make things difficult for you on purpose.

The thing is commands based files are always installed in /bin folders they can be anywhere on the system path.

I had the same problem and I found that I have these files in my

~/.local/bin/

folder instead of

/usr/loca/bin/

which is the common case, but I think they changed the default path to

~ or $HOME

directory because its more isolate for the pip installations and provides a distinction between apt-get packages and pip packages.

So coming to the point you have two choices here either you go to your .bashrc and make changes like this

# for virtualenv wrapper
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/Envs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Devel
source $HOME/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

and than create a directory virtualenvwrapper under /usr/share/ and than symlink your virtualwrapper_lazy.sh like this

sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper_lazy.sh /usr/share/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper_lazy.sh

and you can check if your workon command is working which will list your existing virtualenv's.