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I am trying to create a new virtual environment for a tutorial. I have installed virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper multiple times but every time I try creating a new virtual environment my terminal displays - mkvirtualenv: command not found. When I try finding out the version of virtualenv it shows virtualenv: command not found. Something similar was happening with my pip installation as well but then it got resolved when I used some command.

I would like to point out that my PATH seems to be really messed up. The PATH is pointing to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin. Please help.

I saw something else when I use pip show virtualenv it gives me details of the version and the author but when I use virtualenv --version it sends a virtualenv: command not found.

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  • pip install virtualenv Commented May 15, 2020 at 13:44
  • It’s most likely that it’s not installed in your python path Commented May 15, 2020 at 13:44
  • @DenisTsoi so this worked for me - python -m virtualenv venv. Commented May 15, 2020 at 14:23

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First of all, you will need to install virtualenv as it is a python 2 external dependency. 

pip install virtualenv

this will allow you to use virtualenv globally.

Alternatively, you can use from Python 3.5+

python -m virtualenv venv

However if you dont wish to support python 2 you can use venv which is installed on from python 3.3

python3 -v venv venv
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Took quite some time to figure it out but what worked for me was to install it using pip3 install instead of pip install

pip3 install virtualenv
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