In my virtualenv, I need to use sudo for all commands

Question

I set up a virtualenv, which is working, but for some reason I need to use sudo for commands as simple as mkdir. Obviously I did something incorrectly. Any idea what it might be?

Thanks

Answer 1

Check the directory permissions and owner and give:

$ sudo chown -R me:me virtualenvdir
$ sudo chmod -R a+rX virtualenvdir

change me with your username, typically $USER, and virtualenvdir with your virtualenv's work directory.

Answer 2

The commands

cd test
sudo virtualenv python

creates a directory called python which is owned by root.

drwxr-xr-x 5 root   root      4096 2010-04-17 11:40 python

That would force you to use sudo for simple things like making a directory inside the python directory.

The fix would be to delete the python directory (saving data first if necessary) and issue the command

virtualenv python

without the sudo.