I’ve been using virtualenv lately while developing in python. I like the idea of a segregated development environment using the –no-site-packages option, but doing this while developing a PyGTK app can be a bit tricky. The PyGTK modules are installed on Ubuntu by default, and I would like to make a virtualenv (with –no-site-packages) aware of specific modules that are located elsewhere on the system.
What’s the best way to do this? Or should I just suck it up and drop the –no-site-packages option?
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Answer
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages --python=/usr/bin/python2.6 myvirtualenv $ cd myvirtualenv $ source bin/activate $ cd lib/python2.6/ $ ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/ $ ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pygtk.pth $ ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pygtk.py $ ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/cairo/ $ python >>> import pygtk >>> import gtk