python - how to solve "bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links"

Question

I am trying to install numpy in a virtual environment that I created. I used the following series of commands to create and activate and then installing a local version of numpy (all these after cd-ing into the project folder).

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install numpy

However, after the last command, I get this error:

bash: /home/fieldsofgold/Desktop/test/venv/bin/pip: /home/fieldsofgold/Desktop/test/venv/bin/python: bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links

Could anyone please help me solve it and let me know what could be going wrong?

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 in VirtualBox, and the python version is 2.7.6.

Answer 1

I had the same issue, and solved it simply by removing the old env file with rm -rf env. Then I created a new environment with virtualenv env, followed by installing the requirements, normally pip install -r requirements.txt, then I was able to run my app successfully.