How To Install python3-virtualenv on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-virtualenv on Ubuntu.

What is `python3-virtualenv`

python3-virtualenv is:

virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments, each invokable with its own Python executable. Each instance can have different sets of modules, installable via pip. Virtual Python instances can also be created without root access.

Since Python 3.3, a subset of it has been integrated into the standard library under the venv module (python3-venv in Debian). The venv module does not offer all features of this library, to name just a few more prominent ones:

is slower (by not having the app-data seed method),
is not as extendable,
cannot create virtual environments for arbitrarily installed python versions (and automatically discover these),
does not have as rich programmatic API (describe virtual environments without creating them).

This is the Python 3 version of the library. It includes the command line script.

There are three methods to install python3-virtualenv on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-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 python3-virtualenv using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-virtualenv

Install python3-virtualenv Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-virtualenv using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-virtualenv

Install python3-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 python3-virtualenv using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-virtualenv

How To Uninstall python3-virtualenv on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the python3-virtualenv package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-virtualenv

Uninstall python3-virtualenv And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-virtualenv and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-virtualenv

Remove python3-virtualenv Configurations and Data

To remove python3-virtualenv configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-virtualenv

Remove python3-virtualenv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-virtualenv configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-virtualenv

Dependencies

python3-virtualenv have the following dependencies:

References

python3-virtualenv website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-virtualenv package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.