I am trying to migrate over my virtualenv on my local machine to my droplet. Can I just create a new virtualenv on my droplet and then literally copy over the lib directory from my local machine into the virtualenv directory on my droplet? I am specifically wanting to know how to properly move over that lib directory.
If I can’t just copy that directory, am I going to have to install all those libraries from scratch again?
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I forgot to include an important piece of information which is that, most of my dependencies have been modified (by me), and are not hosted anywhere. This is why I’m confused on what is the best way to move those over.
Yes, the best way to do this is to re-install the packages inside of the new virtualenv on your droplet. Luckily, there is an easily supported way to do this in one shot. Inside of the local virtualenv, run:
This will create a
requirements.txt
listing the installed libraries and their dependencies. Copy that file onto your droplet. Then inside the virtualenv on the droplet, run:This will install all of the libraries listed in the file, recreating your development environment.