I am trying to build someone else's project that relies on the virtualenv package. On Mac OS with Homebrew, the python environment is externally managed, so I can't "globally" install packages with pip, only with homebrew. I've run brew install virtualenv brew install pyenv-virtualenv which seemed to succeed, but python -m virtualenv still gives a "No module named virtualenv" error. If it were any other package, I would do the usual thing and create a virtual environment with venv, and install it there. But it feels wrong to install virtualenv inside a virtual environment created by venv. Is there any way to install virtualenv "globally" in some way so the project I'm trying to install can reach it? Continue reading...
