It is typically thought of as best practice to use virtual environments to encapsulate python modules. This is to prevent the dependencies of one project from interfering with that of another.
In order to install the python modules of a django project into a venv environment, follow these steps:
Step 1: Downloading venv
Go ahead and install the venv program using sudo apt install python3-venv
Step 2: Make a directory and initialise it as a virtual environment
Create a directory using: mkdir djangoenv and create and initialise a virtual environment using: python3 -m venv djangoenv
Step 3: Activate the virtual environment
Use the command: source djangoenv/bin/activate
Step 4: Download all the django dependencies into the venv
Use the following command to download all the python modules from the requirements.txt using the pip package manager and placing those modules into a venv away from the global set-up
pip install -r requirements.txt
