Creating Python Virtual Environment on Bren Compute Server

This article will help you create a python virtual environment. In this example, we'll create one on a Bren computing server.

1. Log into a Bren computing server.
2. Open up Terminal session in either JupyterLab or Jupyter Notebooks.
3. Run the following commands:

To see if python is pointing to correct python3 install.

which python3

Check that you are in the root of your home folder (or where you want to store your virtual environment). File path of your home folder is /Users/(BrenUsername)

pwd

Create environment

python3 -m venv environment_name

View top level tree of virtual environment

tree -d -L 1 environment_name

Activate virtual environment

. /Users/(BrenUsername)/environment_name/bin/activate

Register kernel with Jupyter

ipython kernel install --user --name=environment_name

Verify that kernel is registered with Jupyter

jupyter kernelspec list

Once you're done, you can deactivate the environment.

. /Users/(brenusername)/environment_name/bin/deactivate

Then remove kernel from Jupyter

jupyter kernelspec uninstall environment_name

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