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Hi for a localRun is there way to specify which virtualenv to run the task on?
I’m using pyenv but the task is not running on the local pyenv environment but rather on the system default python

Hey <@U0299BKCMKM>, when you do `prefect agent local start`, it uses the environment that it spun up from. So you can change your env before running the agent and the agent will use that env.

i did that but it seemed like it doesnt run on top of its pyenv… i will try again though

<@U01QEJ9PP53> Hey Kevin! I tried and still doesnt work. I activated my desired pyenv and launched the prefect local agent , but the actual task is deployed on the system default python. Do you have any relevent resource where I can check out?

So I haven't used pipenv myself since I use conda and I am sure it works for conda. Do you wanna try with that?

Is that task invoking python? It's not right? just making sure. You mean the whole flow is the wrong python env?

the whole flow is running on the default python environment. and all of our team is using pyenv which is a challenge to change to conda… well let me know if you get to see anything that I can refer to!

i dont have anything in mind because it's actually the first time i've seen someone report the issue, but I can dive deeper and try tom. are you using pyenv (is that different from pipenv)?

wait sorry what is the error you run into so i can try and replicate? `ModuleNotFoundError` on an import like `pandas`?

yeap so i had to install the module in the main environment instead of pyenv virtual env

and yes I am using pyenv and I believe its different from pipenv!

I am not confident that the local agent is going to use `pyenv` . Still looking into this.

Really if I don’t have an update in a day or two, I would suggest opening a Github issue to track this (or I can for you)