Where is virtualenvwrapper.sh after pip install?

Question

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

did you already try this ?

$ which virtualenvwrapper.sh

I just reinstalled it with pip.

sudo pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper
sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

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

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)

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

On Mac OS

which virtualenvwrapper.sh

u got

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

and u can

sudo ln /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

and in your .bash_profile

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

or u can

source /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh