Install fails on x64 Windows 10: `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenv' Exiting due to failure` about aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup

[rahulrajaram]

Hi @phillhocking ,

Thanks for reaching out. This appears to be a bug in how virtualenv is installed through pip install --target on some Windows machines. Until we fix this bug, you can get around it by doing:

1. pip uninstall -y virtualenv
2. pip install virtualenv
3. python .\aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup\scripts\ebcli_installer.py

Let me know if this doesn't work.

[Diceps]

Make sure you run pip install virtualenv as administrator or sudo so that python won't install the packages to /site-packages which virtualenv won't get recognized in PATH.

Only helped me by installing virtualenv by running cmd as administrator which installs the packages in /dist-packages. Same for linux with sudo.

[LahaLuhem]

Hi @phillhocking ,

Thanks for reaching out. This appears to be a bug in how virtualenv is installed through pip install --target on some Windows machines. Until we fix this bug, you can get around it by doing:

1. pip uninstall -y virtualenv
2. pip install virtualenv
3. python .\aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup\scripts\ebcli_installer.py

Let me know if this doesn't work.

I still need to use the --target flag though.

[kaynetpc]

C:\Python311\python.exe: can't open file 'C:\Users\kayode\.aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setupscriptsebcli_installer.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory