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Re: Pip installs to unexpected place

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject	Re: Pip installs to unexpected place
Date	2025-04-14 21:56 +0000
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:55:09 -0400, Thomas Passin wrote:

> Pip doesn't know about the environment it runs in. It seems to me that
> you didn't active the venv before you installed using pip. So nothing
> would have gotten installed into the venv. So where is the venv that you
> set up? I usually put them into ~/venv. For example, a venv named "gf4"
> is at ~/venv/gf4.

Are you sure about that? activate has

VIRTUAL_ENV="/home/rbowman/work/python/weather"
export VIRTUAL_ENV

_OLD_VIRTUAL_PATH="$PATH"
PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
export PATH

$PATH is modified to point to the bin directory in the venv, and it 
includes python and pip. You can use 'python3' if you really want to since 
it is there also. 

$ which pip
/home/rbowman/work/python/weather/bin/pip

'deactivate'  restores $PATH.  

I'll agree it sounds like the venv wasn't activated.

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Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2025-04-14 09:55 -0400
  Re: Pip installs to unexpected place rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-14 21:56 +0000
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-04-14 15:31 -0700
  Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-04-14 15:20 -0700
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-15 01:12 +0000
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2025-04-14 23:11 -0400
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2025-04-14 21:51 -0400

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