virtual environment from Mac to Linux

Question

I recently made a django project using virtualenv on my mac. That mac broke, but I saved the files and now I want to work on my project using my linux computer. I am now having some difficulty running the virtual environment in Ubuntu.

Does it even make sense to try and use a virtual env made in Mac OS on Ubuntu?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can just recreate the virtual environment on Ubuntu. The virtual env will have the python binary which will be different on a different system.

Answer 2

Install pip

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Install virtualenv using pip

sudo pip3 install virtualenv 

Create a virtual environment

virtualenv venv 

You can use any name instead of venv.

You can also use a Python interpreter of your choice

virtualenv -p <python2> <python3> <python3.7> venv

Activate your virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

You only have to recreate virtualenv. That's all.

If you have a requirements.txt file then use pip to install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt