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Venv pandoc issue (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/python
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I can't get my program to use pandoc from inside a venv.

I can use pandoc from the system context.

From inside the venv

which pandoc
/usr/bin/pandoc

I've installed pandoc inside the venv with pip, and confirmed the files are in the venv.

What am I missing?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

echo your $PATH & site-packages after activating venv. The activation logic does some juggling with the PATH so maybe pandoc slipped out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you activate your virtual python env with ‘source .venv/bin/activate’? You must do that in each new shell unless you add some config to your shell profile config to have it detect the presence of a python venv.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep.

Prompt changes to (venv) foo@bar.

I can run other libraries

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Okay perfect, just wanted to check.

Next I’d say check your venv to verify the pandoc binary is indeed there:

find $VIRTUAL_ENV -name pandoc

If it’s not there, you should be able to install it by entering a python shell from your venv and do:

import pypandoc
pypandoc.download_pandoc()

Hopefully that’s able to resolve it for ya. Venv should be at the front of your path so it should prefer bins from there.