How to completely reinstall virtualenv on Ubuntu?

Question

I have a broken installation of virtualenv on Ubuntu 20.04.4, and I want to reinstall it completely new. I tried to remove the current installation with

sudo apt remove virtualenv
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove virtualenv 
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove virtualenv 

but the file

/usr/local/bin/virtualenv

still exists. And when I try to create a virtualenv with

virtualenv venv

I get an error

/home/adietz/.local/bin/virtualenv

(even I removed EVERY virtualenv from /usr/bin)!!

Something seems totally mixed up. How can I fix this?

When I open a new terminal and try to create a virtualenv it tells me:

Command 'virtualenv' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install python3-virtualenv

But running this command does not solve any issues, as when I run the above command, I get the above error again.

Additional infos:

• which virtualenv returns nothing
• mkvirtualenv returns ERROR: virtualenvwrapper could not find virtualenv in your path
• python version is 3.8.10

Answer 1

The following trick is a workaround. Instead of using virtualenv I create a virtual environment as follows

python -m venv myvenv

But that does not solve my virtualenvwrapper issue.