🔒 venv not carrying pip packages from clonning repos

[small rose]

I set up a venv for a project, activated it and all on my laptop while at uni. Then i saved it and create a repo for it (venv and project included in the repo). Now at my home desktop i when i cloned my repo it just gives an error because the packages i installed with pip in my laptop just are not present, for i usually never download any global env packages. Is it something im doing wrong?

[pseudo jewel]

@small rose

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[proud zodiac]

whats the error?

[small rose]

nothing, just says that the packages are not installed

[proud zodiac]

Did you activate your venv?

[small rose]

i activated the venv and all, in my laptop when i first created and installed the packages locally, it worked just fine. After i uploaded it to a repo and cloned in my home desktop it just doesnt seem to be installed anymore. Dont know if this is normal behaviour or not, suppose it isnt

[small rose]

yeah:

[proud zodiac]

On your home desktop, did you activate your venv?

[proud zodiac]

Run pip list or py -m pip list and show me the output

what package is missing?

[small rose]

yeah. so much so that in my laptop if i try to import one of the packages outside of the venv i also cant, but they work just fine inside the venv

[proud zodiac]

one problem at a time

[small rose]

$ pip list
Package Version
------- -------
pip     24.0

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.0 -> 24.1
[notice] To update, run: C:\Users\Aron\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip

[proud zodiac]

yeah so its not showing in the .venv

OK change your workflow. Don't upload the .venv folder to the repo

On your laptop do py -m pip freeze > requirements.txt

Then upload requirements.txt to your repo

Then pull requirements.txt from your repo on your desktop PC

Then activate/create a venv, then pip install -r requirements.txt

Then the whole thing should work

Thats the better env workflow practice

[small rose]

ok ill do that, much thanks!

[pseudo jewel]

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