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Python PIP claims that a package is installed but whet I use package it is not found

I have been trying to setup a proper virtual environment. I came upon this. But I am still unable to use the package:

yathi@DarkWater-U:~$ pip install virtualenvwrapper
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): virtualenvwrapper in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Cleaning up...
yathi@DarkWater-U:~$ workon
workon: command not found
yathi@DarkWater-U:~$ mkvirtualenv
mkvirtualenv: command not found

With some googling I found that the problem is probably because I used sudo pip install instead of pip install. But now I don't know how to correct the problem and install the package correctly.

Solution

  • Please read the documentation:

    $ pip install virtualenvwrapper
...
$ export WORKON_HOME=~/Envs
$ mkdir -p $WORKON_HOME
$ source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
$ mkvirtualenv env1