Hands-On GPU Computing with Python

Installing virtualenv on Ubuntu Linux system

To install virtualenv, first let's update our Ubuntu Linux system. If you recall the ROCm installation, this was the first step there, as well:

sudo apt update

Now let's upgrade the system:

sudo apt upgrade

Using dist-upgrade intelligently manages dependencies and removes older packages when performing the upgrade, whereas using only upgrade keeps older packages while upgrading to the newest available ones.

If you do not have pip already installed, run the following:

sudo apt install python3-pip

After installing pip, use it to finally install virtualenv:

pip install virtualenv

pip will then install virtualenv as shown in the following code:

Collecting virtualenv Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/33/5d/314c760d4204f64e4a968275182b7751bd5c3249094757b39ba987dcfb5a/virtualenv-16.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl ...