Environments

PVM manages environments centrally in ~/.pvm/envs/. An environment can be activated in any project directory, and multiple projects can share the same environment—just like Anaconda, but without the overhead.

Commands

pvm env create <name> [version] # Create environment (interactive version picker if no version given)
pvm env list                    # List all environments
pvm env activate <name>         # Activate environment
pvm env deactivate              # Deactivate current environment
pvm env remove <name>           # Remove environment

How activation works

pvm env activate sources the environment's activate script via the shell wrapper and wraps pip install to automatically route through PVM's deduplication layer. No manual configuration is required.