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Preventing global package install with `PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV`
Posted on 05 Nov, 2021
To make sure you have an virtual env activated whenever you do
pip install, add the following line to your .bashrcexport PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=true
If you now try to install packages outside a virtual environment
pip will remind you.$ pip install django
ERROR: Could not find an activated virtualenv (required).
In some cases you will need to install global packages (like vim plugins etc). For that create a separate bash function like this
gpip() {
PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=false pip "$@"
}