Virtualenv on Ubuntu with no site-packages

python ubuntu pygtk virtualenv
Jeremy Cantrell picture Jeremy Cantrell · Oct 30, 2008 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

I've been using virtualenv lately while developing in python. I like the idea of a segregated development environment using the --no-site-packages option, but doing this while developing a PyGTK app can be a bit tricky. The PyGTK modules are installed on Ubuntu by default, and I would like to make a virtualenv (with --no-site-packages) aware of specific modules that are located elsewhere on the system.

What's the best way to do this? Or should I just suck it up and drop the --no-site-packages option?

Answer

iElectric picture iElectric · Nov 3, 2009 
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages --python=/usr/bin/python2.6 myvirtualenv
$ cd myvirtualenv
$ source bin/activate
$ cd lib/python2.6/
$ ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/ 
$ ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pygtk.pth 
$ ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pygtk.py 
$ ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/cairo/
$ python
>>> import pygtk
>>> import gtk

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