Install Python 3 virtualenv on Ubuntu
# Step 1: Update your repositories sudo apt-get update # Step 2: Install pip for Python 3 sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev sudo apt install python3-pip # Step 3: Use pip to install virtualenv sudo pip3 install virtualenv # Step 4: Launch your Python 3 virtual environment, here the name of my virtual environment will be env3 virtualenv -p python3 env3 # Step 5: Activate your new Python 3 environment. There are two ways to do this . env3/bin/activate # or source env3/bin/activate which does exactly the same thing # you can make sure you are now working with Python 3 python -- version # this command will show you what is going on: the python executable you are using is now located inside your virtualenv repository which python # Step 6: code your stuff # Step 7: done? leave the virtual environment deactivate