Hello, for what it's worth, the problem comes from the debianized version of virtualenv which uses a debundled version of pkg_resource which gets added into the virtualenv at creation time :
$ virtualenv . Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python2 New python executable in /home/caribou/git/quividi/test/bin/python2 Also creating executable in /home/caribou/git/quividi/test/bin/python Installing setuptools, pkg_resources, pip, wheel...done. $ pip freeze pkg-resources==0.0.0 Using the pip installed version of virtualenv can be a workable workaround : $ sudo apt -y purge python3-virtualenv virtualenv tox $ pip install virtualenv $ virtualenv . pip install virtualenv Collecting virtualenv Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c5/97/00dd42a0fc41e9016b23f07ec7f657f636cb672fad9cf72b80f8f65c6a46/virtualenv-16.7.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (3.4MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.4MB 351kB/s Installing collected packages: virtualenv Successfully installed virtualenv-16.7.7 $ virtualenv . New python executable in /home/caribou/git/quividi/test/bin/python Installing setuptools, pip, wheel... done. $ source bin/activate $ pip freeze $ hth, ...Louis -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1635463 Title: pip freeze includes "pkg-resources==0.0.0" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1635463/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs