Permission denied when activating venv

Question

I just started a new python project and created a venv inside the project folder by running virtualenv venv in the terminal. However, when I run venv/bin/acti

Answer 1

From the command line root enter:

source /home/<your_username>/<app_folder>/<venv_name>/bin/activate

Worked for me

Answer 2

You need to run

. venv/bin/activate

or

source venv/bin/activate

The activate file is deliberately not executable because it must be sourced.

It must be sourced because it needs to make changes to the environment. If it is run as a script, it will only make changes to the environment of the child process used to run the script.

Someone in the comments asked about the . command. From the man page for bash:

    .  filename [arguments]
   source filename [arguments]
          Read  and execute commands from filename in the current shell
          environment and return the exit status of the last command
          executed from filename.

In short, . is a shell built-in that means the same thing as the source built-in.

Answer 3

Basically, it's looking for permission to execute activate on the created folder path.

On the root give below permissions command on the desired path where activate is located

sudo chmod -R 755 ~/tensorflow/* # or whatever the target structure 

This will extend all the permissions including Read/Write/Execute and group

then execute ~/bin/activate

Answer 4

go to activate file right click and open properties-->permissions

and check Execute

open this image:

Answer 5

On my VSC, I used these and it worked.

python3 -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate