Cannot Install into Virtual Environment

Question

I have a virtual environment I have created on an Ubuntu virtal machine I am hosting on a windows PC. I intend to replicate my virtual machine in my virtal environment on the virtual machine. However, when trying to install modules to the VE I get a messgae saying that they are already installed - they're not installed in the VE but are on the VM. I thought when set active the VE would have no context of the VM which hosts it?

I have downloaded virtualenvironment sudo pip install virtualenv and then created a virtual environment sudo virtualenv virtual_environment. I then set the virtual environment to active source virtual_environment/bin/activate

When I try and do an apt-get install I get the message 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 202 not upgraded despite the fact I have no modules whatsoever on the VE.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

don't use sudo to create a virtualenv and why are you using apt-get inside the virtualenv? — Padraic Cunningham, Sep 05 '14 at 09:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '14 at 09:28

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I think you're getting a bit confused about what virtualenv does. It is only for isolating Python files and libraries (those you install with pip install). It does nothing for your operating system files (those you install with apt-get).

If you want to create a re-usable container of operating system files (with apt-get) then look instead at something like Docker.

answered Sep 05 '14 at 09:28

foz

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thanks for the docker suggestion - this is what i had in mind and thouhgt virtualenv would do – Mark Corrigan Sep 05 '14 at 09:37

Cannot Install into Virtual Environment

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