Question

Im using virtualenv on Fedora 16 and Ive just created a new virtualenv so that I can build an environment to run a piece of software.

I have another virtualenv which I managed to set up to use Python 2.6, but I cant remember how. I remember it was relatively simple. Something like yum install Python2.6 but no matter how much I search I cant find an answer on how to do this.

My root is using Python 2.7, all I need is for the virtualenv to use 2.6. Thats all. If I have to create a new one thats fine. There is no 2.6 installed in my root but it does seem to be in the bin of my other virtualenv

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If creating a new environment is an option, than you can just create it like this:

virtualenv -p path_to_python26_executable desired_path_to_new_virtualenv

Here is the quote from virtualenv --help:

-p PYTHON_EXE, --python=PYTHON_EXE
                    The Python interpreter to use, e.g.,
                    --python=python2.5 will use the python2.5 interpreter
                    to create the new environment.  The default is the
                    interpreter that virtualenv was installed with
                    (/usr/bin/python)