Unable to uninstall virtualenv from debian 11

My debian OS has been through a few upgrades and is now on 11 (Bullseye). I initially started out with python2 and now I no longer want it - I just want python3. I installed virtualenv a long while back when I was still working with python2. I have done a full dist-upgrade: $ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease Get:2 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x bullseye InRelease [4,586 B] Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease [48.4 kB] Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease Fetched 53.0 kB in 1s (49.9 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: libts-dev 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. And when I check if virtualenv is installed it says yes: $ which virtualenv /usr/local/bin/virtualenv I try uninstalling it but pip tells me it is not installed: $ pip uninstall virtualenv WARNING: Skipping virtualenv as it is not installed $ sudo pip uninstall virtualenv WARNING: Skipping virtualenv as it is not installed. $ pip3 uninstall virtualenv WARNING: Skipping virtualenv as it is not installed $ sudo pip3 uninstall virtualenv WARNING: Skipping virtualenv as it is not installed. I also tried uninstalling with the package manager in case it was installed that way $ sudo apt-get remove virtualenv --purge Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Package 'virtualenv' is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. But after all this I can still see that it is installed: $ which virtualenv /usr/local/bin/virtualenv The reason I want to remove it is that it has an error when i try running it. And I'm thinking fully removing it and installing again will fix this: $ virtualenv . Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 7, in from virtualenv import main ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenv' Should I just delete /usr/local/bin/virtualenv? That seems like a bad idea. How can I remove virtualenv using a package manager? ## Update 1 - try installing virtualenv using pip3 The installation is successful but virtualenv still fails to run without errors: $ pip3 install virtualenv Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Collecting virtualenv Using cached virtualenv-20.25.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.4 kB) Requirement already satisfied: distlib=0.3.7 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from virtualenv) (0.3.8) Requirement already satisfied: filelock=3.12.2 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from virtualenv) (3.13.3) Requirement already satisfied: platformdirs=3.9.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from virtualenv) (4.2.0) Using cached virtualenv-20.25.1-py3-none-any.whl (3.8 MB) Installing collected packages: virtualenv WARNING: The script virtualenv is installed in '/home/me/.local/bin' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location. Successfully installed virtualenv-20.25.1 $ which virtualenv /usr/local/bin/virtualenv $ virtualenv --version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 7, in from virtualenv import main ImportError: cannot import name 'main' from 'virtualenv' (/home/me/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/virtualenv/__init__.py) $ virtualenv . Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 7, in from virtualenv import main ImportError: cannot import name 'main' from 'virtualenv' (/home/me/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/virtualenv/__init__.py) And now virtualenv exists in 2 places on the filesystem: $ which virtualenv /usr/local/bin/virtualenv $ sudo find /usr/ -iname "virtualenv" | grep bin /usr/local/bin/virtualenv $ sudo find /home/me/.local/ -iname "virtualenv" | grep bin /home/me/.local/bin/virtualenv $ ls -l /home/me/.local/bin/virtualenv -rwxr-xr-x 1 me me 238 Apr 7 13:06 /home/me/.local/bin/virtualenv