Question

I have virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper installed, but when trying to setup an application, I enter mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages I get the following error:

-bash: mkvirtualenv: command not found

I am not sure how to troubleshoot this. As a beginner, I’d be grateful for any help.

Answer 1

You need to enable virtualenvwrapper as described in its docs.

Shell Startup File

Add three lines to your shell startup file (.bashrc, .profile, etc.)
to set the location where the virtual environments should live, the
location of your development project directories, and the location of
the script installed with this package:

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs 
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Devel
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

After editing it, reload the startup file (e.g., run source ~/.bashrc).