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 virtualenvwrapper.sh. I've checked all the python and site-packages directories, and I can't find any virtualenvwrapper.sh. Is this something I need to download separately? Is pip not installing correctly?

This is the contents of /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenvwrapper:

hook_loader.py      hook_loader.pyc     project.py      project.pyc     user_scripts.py     user_scripts.pyc

As you can see, no virtualenvwrapper.sh. Where is it?

Solution 1

You can use the find command to search for a file:

find / -name virtualenvwrapper.sh

This will search all directories from the root for the file.

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on ubuntu 12.04 LTS, installing through pip, it is installed to

/usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

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on ubuntu 17.04, installing through pip as a normal user, it is installed to

~/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Solution 2

did you already try this ?

$ which virtualenvwrapper.sh

Solution 3

The exact path where virtualenvwrapper.sh is stored/located varies from OS to OS. Even with in same OS, it varies from version to version. So we need a generic solution that works for all OS versions.

Easiest way I have found to find its path is: Do

pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper

This will prompt a confirmation. Say "No" But first line of confirmation shows the path of virtualenvwrapper.sh (Prompt gives a list of files it will delete, if you say Yes. First entry in this list contains path to virtualenvwrapper.sh in your machine)

Solution 4

I just reinstalled it with pip.

sudo pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper
sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

And this time it put it in /usr/local/bin.

Solution 5

or, like I did..just uninstall virtualenvwrapper

sudo pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper

and then install it with easy_install

sudo easy_install virtualenvwrapper

this time I found the file "/usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh" installed... Before that I weren't finding that file anywhere even by this command

find / -name virtualenvwrapper.sh

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Comments

[Hartley Brody]

For me, since I used pyenv global 3.9.1 to set my default system python before running pip install virtualenvwrapper, the file ended up getting installed at ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.1/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh. Hope that helps anyone else using pyenv!

[zakdances]

No such file or directory I also browsed the /usr/local/bin directory and couldn't find anything that looked related to virtualenv or virtualenvwrapper

[zakdances]

this works, but why doesn't which virtualenvwrapper work? Isn't that the name of the command in the environmental variables?

[Tim]

To help anybody else asking this same question about why which doesn't work, it's because virtualenvwrapper is actually using its custom bash completion file to add purely virtual commands, of which the common virtualenvwrapper command is one. Consequently, there is no physical file on the drive for which to point to.

[Serhii Holinei]

Worked for me. Thanks

[psycat]

to get rid of 'permission denied' you can redirect STDERR to /dev/null. For example: $ find / -name virtualenvwrapper.sh 2>/dev/null

[tenfishsticks]

@yourfriendzak, the bash script virtualenvwrapper.sh needs to be sourced in your shell before any of the commands (mkvirtualenv, rmvirtualenv, etc.) are available, i.e. $ source /path/to/virtualenvwrapper.sh

[eddiemoya]

This worked for me on Ubuntu, also allowing which virtualenvwrapper.sh to work, which had been returning nothing until I did this.

[tomaskazemekas]

After this command on Fedora 23 I have found virtualenvwrapper.sh only in usr/bin .

[hermgerm]

Had initially installed it with apt-get and it landed in /usr/share/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper.sh, then purged it and did your trick.

[Siladittya]

This happened for me too. :(

[danagerous]

This was much faster than find but both worked. Mine was located in usr/local/bin on OS X.

[whyisyoung]

It didn't work for me. I'm using Python 2.7.14 with Virtualenv 15.1.0 , virtualenvwrapper 4.8.2.

[Anuj Gupta]

@whyisyoung : seriously? can you send me the screen shot right after you run "pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper"

[Alan]

This worked for me in Ubuntu 14.04 if you find / -name xxxx.sh didn't find anything.

[Mahesh Vemula]

Nice shortcut. I am using this even for other libraries. Thank!

[Reuel Ribeiro]

On Manjaro, arch based, it was also located under /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin. I don't know why.

[MiGu3X]

Same for ubuntu 20.04

[robertspierre]

On Ubuntu 20.10, it is also installed in ~/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

[Karan Singh]

On Ubuntu 16.04, it is installed in ~/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh