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Venv is created without pip

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This causes an EnvironmentError: Permission Denied when I try to install anything, because it ends up using system-wide pip. What I find terribly strange is that the necessary flag is actually being passed here: https://github.com/sdispater/poetry/blob/develop/poetry/utils/venv.py#L140

~ $ poetry new foo
Created package foo in foo
~ $ cd foo
~/foo $ poetry add -D mypy
Using version ^0.600.0 for mypy

Updating dependencies
Resolving dependencies... (0.1s)


Package operations: 8 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals

Writing lock file

  - Installing atomicwrites (1.1.5)
                                                                                                                                        
[VenvCommandError]                                                                                                       
Command ['pip', 'install', '--no-deps', '-r', '/tmp/atomicwrites-1.1.55axra81lreqs.txt'] errored with the following output:           
Collecting atomicwrites==1.1.5 (from -r /tmp/atomicwrites-1.1.55axra81lreqs.txt (line 1))                                             
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0a/e8/cd6375e7a59664eeea9e1c77a766eeac0fc3083bb958c2b41ec46b95f29c/atomicwrit  
es-1.1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl                                                                                                         
Installing collected packages: atomicwrites                                                                                           
Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permissão negada: '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/atomicwrites-1  
.1.5.dist-info'                                                                                                                       
Consider using the `--user` option or check the permissions.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                        
add [-D|--dev] [--git GIT] [--path PATH] [-E|--extras EXTRAS] [--optional] [--python PYTHON] [--platform PLATFORM] [--allow-prereleases] [--dry-run] [--] <name> (<name>)...

~/foo $ ls .venv/bin
activate  activate.csh  activate.fish  python  python3

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Created 5 years ago
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cauebscommented, Jun 6, 2018

@Victor-Savu It does, I’ve already tried it and commented there 😃

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cauebscommented, Jun 28, 2018

Ok, the pipsi available on PyPI is outdated (for almost three years, now) and shouldn’t be used. That version always uses virtualenv instead of venv, even on python 3, and that’s why poetry couldn’t properly create virtualenvs. I installed pipsi from the git repo, installed poetry with it, and everything is fine.

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