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I've been reading up on using virtualenv for django projects and i just wanted a bit of confirmation.

After installing virtualenv via sudo pip install virtualenv. You type in the command virtualenv ENV to create a virtual --no-site-packages ENV directory named ENV that only has the pythong standard library in it.

Next you go to ./ENV/bin/ directory to install the latest version of Django.

To use older versions of Django, simply create another virtualenv and install a different version of Django in /bin/.

Please let me know if my logic is correct! Thank you!

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  • --no-site-packages is the default option in newer versions of virtualenv. Commented May 8, 2013 at 10:14

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Sounds right.

Do you mean you do source ./ENV/bin/activate and then do pip install django==VERSION to install the specified version of django? You do have to activate the virtualenv for it work.

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yea that is something i forgot sorry!
I was also wondering if this video gave a proper tutorial link
Looks ok to me. Try virtualenvwrapper by all means, it makes the process much smoother. Relevant to your process, with virtualenvwrapper you do not get the system site-packages by default.

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