[FIXED] Installing venv for python3 in WSL (Ubuntu)

Issue

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.

Solution

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

Answered By - FishingCode