Download our script designed to download and install pip3 for python3:
mtg@mtgvb:~$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MontrealTradingGroup/deployPython3VM/master/python-pip3.sh
--2018-11-23 17:26:07-- https://github.com/MontrealTradingGroup/deployPython3VM/blob/master/python-pip3.sh
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.113, 192.30.253.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘python-pip3.sh’
python-pip3.sh [ <=> ] 52.60K --.-KB/s in 0.04s
2018-11-23 17:26:10 (1.31 MB/s) - ‘python-pip3.sh’ saved [53858]
This command will automatically download the script python-pip3.sh hosted in this repository.
Execute the script using:
mtg@mtgvb:~$ sh python-pip3.sh
You will be prompted for your root password. Once it is done, the Virtual Machine will reboot.
Update and upgrade the virtual machine, just in case some of your software is outdated:
sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Then, install the package (software) python3-distutils which will be necessary to install pip3:
sudo apt-get install python3-distutils
Download the get-pip.py script which will be used to install pip3 automatically:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
Execute the script to install pip3:
python3 get-pip.py --user
Reboot your Virtual Machine for the changes to take effect:
sudo reboot
This repository contains the steps to deploy a Virtual Environment for Python3
Install Virtual Env using pip3:
mtg@mtgvb:~$ pip3 install virtualenv --user
Collecting virtualenv
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7c/17/9b7b6cddfd255388b58c61e25b091047f6814183e1d63741c8df8dcd65a2/virtualenv-16.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: virtualenv
Successfully installed virtualenv-16.1.0
Create a folder in which the virtual environment will be hosted:
mtg@mtgvb:~$ mkdir .env
Initialize and install the virtual environment in the previously created folder:
mtg@mtgvb:~$ virtualenv .env/freqtrade
Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/mtg/.env/freqtrade/bin/python3
Also creating executable in /home/mtg/.env/freqtrade/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
done.
Load the virtual environment:
mtg@mtgvb:~$ source .env/freqtrade/bin/activate
(freqtrade) mtg@mtgvb:~$
It is possible to see that the virtual environment was successfully loaded by noticing the '(freqtrade)' written before the username in the command line prompt.
Exit the virtual environment:
(freqtrade) mtg@mtgvb:~$ deactivate