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This article assumes you have a properly installed version of Python. If you're using the HPCVL and haven't installed your own version, then chances are you're using their broken one. I wrote some instructions for getting your own installation of python going on the HPCVL here.

Get virtualenv

Copy the link to the source from the pypi page. At the time of writing it's at version 0.8. Here's the link I found to the source:

http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.7.2.tar.gz#md5=b5d63b05373a4344ae099a68875aae78

Log into the HPCVL create a working directory

mkdir ve-working
cd ve-working

Grab virtualenv.

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.7.2.tar.gz#md5=b5d63b05373a4344ae099a68875aae78

Decompress

gunzip virtualenv-1.7.2.tar.gz
tar xf virtualenv-1.7.2.tar

Installing

cd virtualenv-1.7.2
python setup.py install

Test It

cd ~/
virtualenv myenv

I got an error. Damn.

To be continued.