I am not able to activate my virtual environment in linux

Question

I am not able to activate the venv available in my project directory.

When I do the following it still doesn't activate the venv and I am not able to use python or pip installed in my venv.

/my_project$ source venv/bin/activate

(venv) /my_project$

It does show that the venv is activated but when I check python and pip, version and location it shows that both are from the root dir usr/bin/python & usr/bin/pip .

Venv Installation Process

/my_project$ python3.10 -m venv venv

It's working well in my new directory and I am also able to activate the venv but my existing venv in the project folder that I created yesterday is not starting. I am new to Linux and don't know much about it but I believe it has something to do with the Linux reboot as after the reboot this started happening. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
system python: 3.8.10
python3.10: 3.10.5

Answer 1

perhaps try explicitly setting the python version when creating your venv:

ie

/my_project$ python -m venv venv python=python3.10

https://stackoverflow.com/a/61775880/14327910

and from ( https://python.land/virtual-environments/virtualenv ):

Blockquote Python 3.4 and above If you are running Python 3.4+, you can use the venv module baked into Python: $ python -m venv [directory] This command creates a venv in the specified directory and copies pip into it as well. If you're unsure what to call the directory: venv is a commonly seen option; it doesn't leave anyone guessing what it is. A little further in this article, we'll take a close look at the directory that was just created. But let's first look at how to activate this virtual environment.