How to activate virtualenv in Python Help

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Running on Red Hat Linux with Python 2.5.2

Using recent versions of Virtualenv but could not activate it. I found that older versions work better with Python 2.6 or something. Help?

VE installation is fine:

[testboy@server6 ~]$ python virtualenv-1.6.4/virtualenv.py virtual

New python executable in virtual/bin/python
Installing setuptools............done.
Installing pip...............done.

Environment looks fine:

[testboy@server6 ~]$ cd virtual
[testboy@server6 ~/virtual]$ dir
bin  include  lib

Trying to activate it now:

[testboy@server6 ~/virtual]$ . bin/activate
/bin/.: Permission denied.

Checked chmod:

[testboy@server6 ~/virtual]$ cd bin
[testboy@server6 bin]$ ls -l
total 3160
-rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        2130 Jan 30 11:38 activate
-rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        1050 Jan 30 11:38 activate.csh
-rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        2869 Jan 30 11:38 activate.fish
-rw-r--r-

There was a problem, hence changed:

[testboy@server6 bin]$ ls -l
total 3160
-rwxr--r--    1 necrailk biz12        2130 Jan 30 11:38 activate
-rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        1050 Jan 30 11:38 activate.csh
-rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        2869 Jan 30 11:38 activate.fish
-rw-r--r--    1 necrailk biz12        1005 Jan 30 11:38 activate_this.py
-rwxr-xr-x    1 necrailk biz

Trying to activate again:

[testboy@server6 ~/virtual]$ . bin/activate
/bin/.: Permission denied.

Nothing is working. I'd appreciate some help regarding this, thanks!

Nov 5, 2018 in Python by Anirudh
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edited Dec 17, 2018 by Anirudh 4,596 views

1 answer to this question.

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One major issue I see is that you forgot to do source bin/activate where source is a executable name.

It is easy to think that manual is telling "execute this from root of the environment folder".

No need to make activate executable via chmod. Hope this solves your issue!
answered Nov 5, 2018 by Nymeria
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edited Dec 17, 2018 by Nymeria

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