Broken references in Virtualenvs

Michael Zippo

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I recently installed a bunch of dotfiles on my Mac along with some other applications (I changed to iTerm instead of Terminal, and Sublime as my default text editor) but ever since, all my virtual environments have stopped working, although their folders inside .virtualenvs are still there and they give the following error whenever I try to run anything in them:

dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../.Python
  Referenced from: /Users/[user]/.virtualenvs/modclass/bin/python
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

I have removed all the files related to dotfiles and have restored my .bash_profile to what it was before, but the problem persists. Is there any way to diagnose the problem or solve it in an easy way (e.g. not requiring to create all the virtualenvs all over again)?

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Marie Sikorski

Berlin | 2023-03-22

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Schneider Williams

Prague | 2023-03-22

Simply put and clear. Thank you for sharing. Broken references in Virtualenvs and other issues with Python functions was always my weak point 😁. Checked yesterday, it works!

Marie Robinson

London | 2023-03-22

Maybe there are another answers? What Broken references in Virtualenvs exactly means?. Will get back tomorrow with feedback