How To Install virtualenv on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtualenv on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is virtualenv
virtualenv is:
The virtualenv utility creates virtual Python instances, each invokable with its own Python executable. Each instance can have different sets of modules, installable via easy_install. Virtual Python instances can also be created without root access.
This is a dependency package and may be safely removed.
Package: virtualenv Architecture: all Version: 20.0.17-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/python Source: python-virtualenv Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 22 Depends: python3-virtualenv Filename: pool/universe/p/python-virtualenv/virtualenv_20.0.17-1_all.deb Size: 2132 MD5sum: 286a897145b02ed9dc820b0e6e6a7431 SHA1: 0918d98916d566af7e91517e7e2d166c273e38a5 SHA256: 631fbad90b6272ffc6022f9aa638073b3bcf28ff33b67a8384237b279eb2c12e Homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv Description-en: Python virtual environment creator The virtualenv utility creates virtual Python instances, each invokable with its own Python executable. Each instance can have different sets of modules, installable via easy_install. Virtual Python instances can also be created without root access.
This is a dependency package and may be safely removed.
There are three methods to install virtualenv on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install virtualenv Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install virtualenv using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install virtualenv
Install virtualenv Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install virtualenv using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install virtualenv
Install virtualenv Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install virtualenv using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install virtualenv
How To Uninstall virtualenv on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the virtualenv package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove virtualenv
Uninstall virtualenv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall virtualenv and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove virtualenv
Remove virtualenv Configurations and Data
To remove virtualenv configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge virtualenv
Remove virtualenv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove virtualenv configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge virtualenv
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtualenv package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
