Django for Designers/Laptop setup/Linux virtualenv
Test if you have the required tools
In this step, we test if you have the virtualenv tool.
Take this moment to open up a command prompt. Enter the command:
virtualenv --help
You should see a help message that looks something like this:
Usage: virtualenv [OPTIONS] DEST_DIR Options: --version show program's version number and exit
If you don't see that friendly message, download virtualenv.py from here:
and save it inside the pages-to-apps folder.
Also, if you use Ubuntu or Debian, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install python-dev
It installs development-related tools that virtualenv relies on.