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Installing venv for python3 in WSL (Ubuntu) – Debian

I am trying to configure venv on Windows Subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu.

What I have tried:

1) Installing venv through pip (pip3, to be exact)

pip3 install venv

I get the following error

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement venv (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for venv

2) Installing venv through apt and apt-get

sudo apt install python3-venv

In this case the installation seems to complete, but when I try to create a virtual environment with python3 -m venv ./venv, I get an error, telling me to do apt-get install python3-venv (which I just did!)

The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available.  On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.

    apt-get install python3-venv

You may need to use sudo with that command.  After installing the python3-venv
package, recreate your virtual environment.

Failing command: ['/mnt/c/Users/Vicubso/.../code/venv/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']

I have also read the following posts
post 1,
post 2, and several others. None of these seem to solve my problem.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Answers


  1. 0

    Give this approach a shot:

    Install the pip:

    sudo apt-get install python-pip

    Install the virtual environment:

    sudo pip install virtualenv

    Store your virtual environments somewhere:

    mkdir ~/.storevirtualenvs

    Now you should be able to create a new virtualenv

    virtualenv -p python3 yourVenv

    To activate:

    source yourVenv/bin/activate

    To exit your new virtualenv, just deactivate

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  2. 0

    Nothing here worked for me, but this did in WSL2:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-venv
python3.8 -m venv whatever

    Good luck!

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  3. 0

    This was more of a headache than it needed to be. It seems that it relates to WSL<->Windows file system mapping issues. This blog post perhaps describes it better, but the net is you need to store additional metadata with files on a particular mount, as described in this MS devblog.

    I fixed the issue by running:

    sudo umount /mnt/c
sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata

    After which I was able to create python venv without needing to sudo.

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  4. 0

    The error occurs when you’re in /mnt/XXX (under Windows part).

    Switch to Linux part by cd and run python3 -m venv ./venv again and that should be fine

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  5. 0

    I was getting the same error message, I have WSL(Ubuntu) installed on my computer, finally I found this doc:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/python/web-frameworks#open-a-wsl—remote-window
    Ironically the only difference from what I was using as command was the name, I was using venv, then I run the command again using .venv so that the files become hidden files instead, and it worked. Hopefully it’ll help someone else 🙂

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  6. 0

    You need to install also python3.8-venv via
    sudo apt install python3.8-venv

    this fixed the problem for me.

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