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.