Virtualenv setting guide

Guides how to set up virtualenv environment to run FOSSLight Scanner as Python Package.

Contents

• Install additial packages
• Install Python and python-dev
• Set up virtualenv
• Virtualenv command

📋 Prerequisite

In case of macOS, install additional packages.

brew install openssl
brew install libmagic
brew install postgresql

💻 Install Python, python-dev

• Refer to the Installation Guide for how to install Python.
• Install python-dev, python-distutils according to the python version you are using.

  $ sudo apt-get install python3.8 python3-pip python3.8-dev python3.8-distutils
  

📋 Create and activate virtualenv

See the Python virtaulenv page for details.

$ pip3 install virtualenv
$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.8 venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

⌨️ Virtualenv commands