installing something to a virtualenv when it's already in site-packages

[Rolando Espinoza La Fuente]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:05 AM, nbv4 <nbvfour at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have ipython installed via apt. I can go to the command line and
> type 'ipython' and it will work. If I try to install ipython to a
> virtualenv, I get this:
>
> $ pip install -E env/ ipython
> Requirement already satisfied: ipython in /usr/share/pyshared
> Installing collected packages: ipython
> Successfully installed ipython
>
> I want ipython in both site-packages as well as in my virtualenv. This
> is bad because when I activate the virtualenv, site-packages
> disappears and ipython is not available. A work around is to uninstall
> ipython from apt, install to the virtualenv, then reinstall in apt. Is
> there a better way?

I use -U (--upgrade) to force the installation within virtualenv. e.g:

$ pip install -E env/ -U ipython

Regards,

Rolando