Intro is a management tool for virtual environments. It is easy to access, create and delete virtual environments using a virtual environment wrapper.  The objective of this blog is to help my fellow readers, set up a Virtual Environment Wrapper on Linux OS. Virtual Environment Wrapper Pre-requisite To follow along with the blog, you're gonna need pip installed in your system. If you haven't, then you can read my blog about creating a virtual environmen . t Install Virtual Environment Wrapper Open command terminal: pip install virtualenvwrapper Make a directory for storing virtual environments mkdir ~/.virtualenvs Set the directory as the go-to directory for the wrapper export WORKON_HOME=~/.virtualenvs Provide a Virtual Environment Wrapper path to your python installation VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON='/usr/bin/python3' Provide the path to the wrapper for the start-up shell source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh Create a virtual environment mkvirtualenv yourEnvName This command will create as well as activate your environment at once. You'll probably see two environments, your base environment, and the newly created environment. Deactivate the virtual environment with: deactivate Check the list of environments in your wrapper with: workon Switch the environments with: workon envronment_name workon command not found Now, when you close the terminal and then restart it, and then type , the terminal will not recognize command. It's because we have yet to add the settings permanently in and files. workon workon .bashrc .bash_profile On bashrc File Open the bash file on nano editor. nano ~/.bashrc On the file go to the end of the line (where doesn't matter, it's just to keep it simple) and add the following lines: bashrc #Virtual Env Wrapper settings
export WORKON_HOME=~/.virtualenvs
VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON='/usr/bin/python3'
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh Now, Press to save the file and to exit. Ctrl+S Ctrl+X On bash_profile File Open the file on nano editor. nano ~/.bash_profile Add the following towards the end. # For Virtual Wrapper
source ~/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh Now, Press to save the file and to exit. Ctrl+S Ctrl+X After this, you're all set. Close and reopen the terminal and type , it'll list all the environments in your wrapper. workon Thank you for reading. If this article helped you then please give it a like to show support. If you found any error while following the steps please mention it in the comment. Also published . here

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