Python is a very easy-to-learn programming language yet very powerful. So many people code in python. and python has so much libraries for you to use, that you will need them, but can't use them because you are not root, right? but python has its own container for that, it's virtualenv. So let's see how we can install them: first download it's source, the latest one is 15.1.0, so we will use that


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then extrace it:


then cd into the directory:

then install the virtual env binaries: we will be installing that to a directory named proj in home so
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and then cd to home:

then activate the virtualenv:




Voila! Your python container is active! So now to install your packages just use pip, eg:

So the thing is that you will have to do the `source ~/proj/bin/activate` everytime you login, to avoid that type this:


Credits for this tutorial go to Noteness who created this tutorial (but in the wrong forum section :p)