Abhishek Kapoor

To set up a Virtual Environment, you first need to install “virtualenvwrapper”.

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$ pip install virtualenvwrapper

or

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$ pip easy_install virtualenvwrapper

Setup:
Create a directory to hold the virtual environments.

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$ mkdir $HOME/.virtualenvs

Now,make a environment variable which has the path of .virtualenvs

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$ export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs

Next run the shell script virtualenvwrapper.sh

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$ source virtualenvwrapper.sh

Run: workon

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$ workon

A list of environments, empty, is printed.
Run: mkvirtualenv temp. This includes A virtual environment “temp”.

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$ mkvirtualenv temp.

Run: workon temp.

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$ workon temp

The virtual environment is activated.