once you run the appropriate commandyou can verify that the environment is set up be continuing essentiallypyvenv sets up new directory that contains few items which we can view with the ls commandls my_env output bin include lib lib pyvenv cfg share togetherthese files work to make sure that your projects are isolated from the broader context of your local machineso that system files and project files don' mix this is good practice for version control and to ensure that each of your projects has access to the particular packages that it needs python wheelsa built-package format for python that can speed up your software production by reducing the number of times you need to compilewill be in the ubuntu share directory to use this environmentyou need to activate itwhich you can achieve by typing the following command that calls the activate scriptsource my_env/bin/activate your command prompt will now be prefixed with the name of your environmentin this case it is called my_env depending on what version debian linux you are runningyour prefix may appear somewhat