Permission Denied When Trying to Create Python3 Virtual Environment

Question

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I'm trying to allow users to create their own virutalenv for python3, however when trying to create said environment using a standard user account with this command:$ python3 -m venv ~/path/to/venv

I get this error: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '~/path/to/venv'

~/path/to/venv is already created and is owned by the standard user. The permissions are 775. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

try and run sudo python3 -m venv ~/path/to/venv.

sudo in Linux environment means super user do which basically means that you are giving a command with super user access.

Answer 2

The problem mysteriously resolved itself. Any user is able to create a virtual environment now after no apparent change.