无法安装到虚拟环境

Question

I have a virtual environment I have created on an Ubuntu virtal machine I am hosting on a windows PC. I intend to replicate my virtual machine in my virtal environment on the virtual machine. However, when trying to install modules to the VE I get a messgae saying that they are already installed - they're not installed in the VE but are on the VM. I thought when set active the VE would have no context of the VM which hosts it?

I have downloaded virtualenvironment sudo pip install virtualenv and then created a virtual environment sudo virtualenv virtual_environment . I then set the virtual environment to active source virtual_environment/bin/activate

When I try and do an apt-get install I get the message 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 202 not upgraded despite the fact I have no modules whatsoever on the VE.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you're getting a bit confused about what virtualenv does. It is only for isolating Python files and libraries (those you install with pip install ). It does nothing for your operating system files (those you install with apt-get ).

If you want to create a re-usable container of operating system files (with apt-get ) then look instead at something like Docker.