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Ubuntu – Why is "pip install -r requirements.txt" installing packages in the wrong location?

With an active venv, "pip install -r requirements.txt" is installing to the global environment while "pip install pandas" installs to the install to active venv.

Environment

  • Ubuntu 20.04.6
  • Installed python 3.9

I created and activated a virtual environment using:

python3.9 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

I see the terminal line begin with (.venv) and which pip and which python both seem to point to what is in .venv.

Main issue

When I run

python3.9 -m pip install pandas
pip list

I get the expected output with pandas listed as an installed package.

When I run

python3.9 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3.9 -m pip list

I see none of the packages from my requirements.txt.

Finally, if I run

deactivate
python3.9 -m pip list

I see everything got installed to the global environment.

Does anyone know what could be going on?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Partially figured it out.

    Looks like pip could not find one of the packages since I did pip freeze > requirements.txt on a windows machine and it will not do install anything if it fails to install everything from a requirements file.

    I am not sure how I ended up with things installed to my global environment but everything worked as expected once I removed the windows specific package.


  2. 0

    Which 🐍 python version do you have installed in your machine? Probably it’s something about pip and pip3.

    💡Try :

    pip3 install pandas
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