activating virtual environment not working

Question

On my server (digitalocean droplet), when I activate my virtual environment, it seems something is not working. I say the because:

It does not give me the virtual environment name inside paranthesis on the command line
When I run deactivate commend, it says deactivate: command not found

user@django-s-1vcpu-2gb-sfo3-01:~/example$source env/bin/activate
user@django-s-1vcpu-2gb-sfo3-01:~/example$

running source env/bin/activate should output the following command line:

(user) user@django-s-1vcpu-2gb-sfo3-01:~/example$

I did check which folder I am at and if the env virtual environment is shown under that folder. I also looked at this point, and when I go to python manage.py shell and type those lines of code, it says I am not in the virtualenv! So, why is that? and how to fix it without completely mess up my live production site?

Have you checked that the activate script is in the bin folder? — gullerg, May 12 '22 at 19:43
yes! I went inside the bin folder and ran ```source activate```, no difference at all — EarlyCoder, May 12 '22 at 19:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '22 at 19:56

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I just recreated the virtual environment using virtualenv env. I was reluctant to do so fearing making more problems with my live production site, but it looks OK so far. I will update if this solution has unintended consequences down the road.

answered May 12 '22 at 19:56

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