title: Global installations - Flask & Python
body: <p>How can I tell if flask or python are installed globally? Everytime I attempt to push a flask python app locally I need to copy the flask, jinja2, markupsafe,and werkzeug directories along with file itsdangerous.py</p>
  
  <p>I have had a little experience with paths before, as such I did the <code>echo $PATH</code> command and received my path</p>
  
  <pre><code>/home/me/rampup/webapp/venv/bin:/usr/local/heroku/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
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  <p>Should I append my $PATH with the path locations of python and flask? If so how would I identify the paths of those applications?</p>