virtualenvwrapper.sh crashes shell

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I am following the install instructions for virtualenvwrapper, described here.

I have used pip install virtualenvwrapper and it installed at the path /home/.pyenv/shims/.

But when I run the command source /home/.pyenv/shims/virtualenvwrapper.sh the whole Konsole shuts down. I had previously put the command in the .bashrc file and almost broke Linux because the Konsole would crash immediately after opening.

I'm using Linux OpenSuse and Python version 3.6.0.

Any ideas what could be causing the crash?

python-3.6 virtualenvwrapper python
4 Answers

I found a solution.

source ~/.pyenv/versions/VERSION/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh works every time.

You can't use the shims directory for some reason. Maybe since virtualenvwrapper was likely installed into the pyenv version directory. If you use the shims directory, that link could break when switching versions with pyenv. It's better to access it directly.

user_25388960

I'm seeing the same thing on MacOS (10.12.6).

For me the .zshrc entry which closes/ends the terminal window is:

source $HOME/.pyenv/shims/virtualenvwrapper.sh

I also would like to know why this is occurring, and how to fix it.

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I have come across this problem several times now on different machines and while I don't fully understand why it happens, I have found a solution to the problem.

The problem seems to be due to mismatches in the python version being used and the pip version used to install virtualenvwrapper. I had been using the system install of python (2.7) but the pip version was for python 3.5.

To fix this, use the suggestion in this answer as follows:

python -m pip install virtualenvwrapper

Then you can source /path/to/virtualenvwrapper.sh and everything should work fine.

user_48443110

Sean Combs' answer works for me, too. But I didn't want to hard code a specific python version, so I use grep to build the path to virtualenvwrapper.sh dynamically.

export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=$HOME/.pyenv/shims/python
source $HOME/.pyenv/versions/$($VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON -V 2>&1 | grep -Po '(?<=Python )(.+)')/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
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