virtualenv not working on Mac OSX 10.11 El Capitan

Question

I try to create a virtualenv but if fails. I searched at Google and at Stackoverflow but I found nothing helpful. Maybe someone can point me to an answer?

Thanks for your help

I'm using:

python 2.7.10
virtualenv 13.1.2
pip 7.1.2
Mac OSX 10.11 (El Capitan)

Log Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 832, in main
    symlink=options.symlink)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1004, in create_environment
    install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 969, in install_wheel
    'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1'
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 910, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))

You should try reinstalling python. Perhaps try using pyenv and home-brew to assist. — Brad Ruderman, Nov 29 '15 at 18:47
Take a look here and install a new version of Python: http://stackoverflow.com/a/33659138/996114 — Mike Covington, Nov 29 '15 at 18:59
Possible [related](http://stackoverflow.com/a/32095725/1699210) — bummi, Feb 14 '16 at 07:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '16 at 21:17

I went through the same thing with El Capitan. With the version updates comes different variation of what how you install it. See below steps to install both pip and virtualenv:

Try reinstalling pip by visiting this Quick tutorial to install pip
Then run this command in your terminal sudo pip install virtualenv

virtualenv not working on Mac OSX 10.11 El Capitan

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