Problem while installing virtualenv on AWS Ubuntu 18.04 AMI

Question

How to install virtualenv properly on AWS Ubuntu 18.04 AMI. I have tried various ways such as through pip and through apt-get but I am not able to either properly install or configure it. Whenever I am running command virtualenv --python=python3.6.venv or virtualenv --version it is giving me this error:

ERROR:root:failed to read config file /home/ubuntu/.config/virtualenv/virtualenv.ini because PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')

How to properly install and configure virtualenv?

Answer 1

First check if Python3 is installed

apt list installed | grep -i python3

After that

python3 -m venv my_app/env