[Django]-How to export virtualenv?

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You don’t copy paste your virtualenv. You export the list of all the packages installed like – 

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Then push the requirements.txt file to anywhere you want to deploy the code, and then just do what you did on dev machine – 

$ virtualenv <env_name>
$ source <env_name>/bin/activate
(<env_name>)$ pip install -r path/to/requirements.txt

And there you have all your packages installed with the exact version.

You can also look into Fabric to automate this task, with a function like this – 

def pip_install():
    with cd(env.path):
        with prefix('source venv/bin/activate'):
            run('pip install -r requirements.txt')
👤Bibhas Debnath

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You can install virtualenvwrapper and try cpvirtualenv, but the developers advise caution here:

Warning

Copying virtual environments is not well supported. Each virtualenv
has path information hard-coded into it, and there may be cases where
the copy code does not know it needs to update a particular file. Use
with caution.

👤Shon

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There’s a package that can do this for you automatically called pipreqs. Here’s a simple implementation:

pip install pipreqs
pipreqs /path/to/project

This will automatically create a requirements.txt in the directory in which you point the package.

👤Doracahl

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If it is going to be on the same path you can tar it and extract it on another machine. If all the same dependencies, libraries etc are available on the target machine it will work.

👤Sigurdur Þorfinnur Einarsson

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