Install Python modules without root / xShellz

Python is a very easy-to-learn programming language yet very powerful. So many people code in python. and python has so much libraries for you to use, that you will need them, but can't use them because you are not root, right? but python has its own container for that, it's virtualenv. So let's see how we can install them: first download it's source, the latest one is 13.1.2, so we will use that
type

wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-13.1.2.tar.gz

then extrace it:

tar -xvf virtualenv-13.1.2.tar.gz

then cd into the directory:

cd virtualenv-13.1.2

then install the virtual env binaries: we will be installing that to a directory named proj in home so

./virtualenv.py ~/proj

and then cd to home:

cd ~

then activate the virtualenv:

source ~/proj/bin/activate

Voila! Your python container is active! So now to install your packages just use pip, eg:

pip install pika

:D
So the thing is that you will have to do the `source ~/proj/bin/activate` everytime you login, to avoid that type this:

echo "source ~/proj/bin/activate" >> ~/.bashrc

So now, your virtualenv will be activated eveytime you login :D Cheers! And send me ponies!

Again, this should be in Tutorials section.

Staff StephenS Dec 07 2015

Great guide!

RoMBot Oct 29 2016

I'm getting:

<code>Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /home/K/KiDo/.tmp /pip-build-XcBMuj/aiohttp/ </code>

when I try:

pip install -U discord.py[voice]

KiDo Jun 26 2017

any idea on how to install pip3 ??? because pip install xxx only works with python2

Frostbite May 06 2018

tar -xvf virtualenv-13.1.2.tar.gz

I am getting this:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

tar: Child returned status 1

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

dreambb Dec 26 2023

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