No activate in venv

Question

There is no activate script in my virtual environment's bin folder. Only files are: python, python3, python3.9.

How to fix my environment without deleting it? I'm using venv not virtualenv. I'm using Linux.

My problem is similar to this one - There is no activate when I am trying to run my virtual env

One of answers says I should run.

python3.7 -m venv venv

But I don't understand this syntax. Should I literally write python3.9 -m venv venv into my terminal? Will it fix my enviroment?

Also I want to say that newly created environments work as expected and all the others too.

are you using it on window or linux or unix ? Please let me know — Hassan ALi, Mar 06 '21 at 12:12
"python3.7 -m venv venv" you had create virtual environment with python3.7 that's issue. Please use "python3.9 -m venv venv" or simply remove extra version of python and keep one. — Hassan ALi, Mar 06 '21 at 12:15
I created it with python3.9 - in bin folder there are 3.9 files. This 3.7 line was just an example from this post with problem similar to mine. — user3565923, Mar 06 '21 at 12:19
It's there. But I want to fix my old environment, not to create new. — user3565923, Mar 06 '21 at 12:22
its the version conflicts. Sorry but i have no idea about it.Thanks — Hassan ALi, Mar 06 '21 at 12:23
Yes, `python3.7 -m venv venv` should be typed into your terminal. This calls the command `python3.7` (i.e. the Python interpreter version 3.79), and runs module `venv` with argument `venv` (which will be the name of the virtual environment folder). — md2perpe, Mar 06 '21 at 13:14

Brent · Answer 1 · 2022-08-06T05:37:45.620

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I had this problem with python 3.10, I had to install venv for my version otherwise I was missing the activate script. (I am using the deadsnake ppa on ubuntu) after this the activate script appears when creating new venv.

sudo apt-get install python3.9-venv

I documented the full python 3.10 on Ubuntu installation here

edited Aug 06 '22 at 05:37

answered Jul 19 '22 at 08:33

Brent

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '21 at 12:57

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i think this is helpfull for you

but for basic use it like this:

python3.7 -m venv myenvname
source myenvname/bin/activate

and if activate isnt there try to find that in sub directories

answered Mar 06 '21 at 12:57

Saniar Mofidi

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No activate in venv

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