ImportError: No module named virtualenv

Question

I am using Django 1.3.7 and python 2.7.6 on windows7 I got an error when I executing my manage.py in this line of code

import shutil, sys, virtualenv, subprocess         


        

Answer 1

I think the problem is you need sudo to globally install virtualenv.

> pip install virtualenv
Could not find an activated virtualenv (required).
> sudo pip install virtualenv
Downloading/unpacking virtualenv
...

But this creates files readable only by root (depending on the umask). In this case, uninstalling/reinstalling may not always help.

You can check with ls -la /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py (replacing 2.7 with whatever version you have or are targeting).

My solution was simply:

sudo chmod -R o+rX /usr/local/lib/python2.7

Answer 2

I had to install virtualenv with the -H flag to set HOME variable to target user's home dir.

sudo -H pip install virtualenv