Solved: Create virtual environment with python 3 in linux

Once you have installed python 3.6 as described in the last post you can create virtual environment to work with it.

• First let’s install the package of virtual environment for python 3.

CentOS/RHEL

sudo yum install -y python3-venv

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install -y python3-venv 

• Create a directory for you virtual environment and get inside it.

mkdir virtualenvscd virtualenvs

• Now let’s create our virtual environment.

python3.6 -m venv cloudvedasenv

• Finally activate the new virtual environment. Notice the new environment name in brackets once you run the source command. That means you are now inside the virtual environment.

[ec2-user@cloudvedas ~]$ source cloudvedasenv/bin/activate

(cloudvedasenv) [ec2-user@cloudvedas ~]$

• If you want to install a package inside the virtual environment you can use pip .

(cloudvedasenv) [ec2-user@cloudvedas ~]$ pip install zappa requests flask