Setting up virtualenv, pip, virtualenvwrapper and IPython on Fedora

Install the necessary packages.

sudo yum -y install python-pip ipython

Use pip to install virtualenvwrapper and virtualenv to our home directory.

echo 'alias pip="pip-python"' >> .bashrc
source .bashrc
pip install --install-option="--prefix=$HOME" virtualenvwrapper

Setup environment for virtualenv.

mkdir ~/virtualenvs
echo 'export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/virtualenvs' >> .bashrc
echo 'source $HOME/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh' >> .bashrc
source .bashrc
workon

Setup postmkvirtualenv script to install IPython. I adapted the postmkvirtualenv script from here.

echo 'CACHE=$WORKON_HOME/.pip-cache
mkdir -p "$CACHE"
$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/pip install --download-cache="$CACHE" ipython' >> $WORKON_HOME/postmkvirtualenv

Create test virtualenv.

mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages test-ipython
cdvirtualenv
ipython --c='print("success")'
deactivate
rmvirtualenv test-ipython

Enjoy.