title: how to solve "bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links"
body: <p>I am trying to install numpy in a virtual environment that I created. I used the following series of commands to create and activate and then installing a local version of numpy (all these after cd-ing into the project folder).</p>
  
  <pre><code>virtualenv venv
  source venv/bin/activate
  pip install numpy
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, after the last command, I get this error: </p>
  
  <pre><code>bash: /home/fieldsofgold/Desktop/test/venv/bin/pip: /home/fieldsofgold/Desktop/test/venv/bin/python: bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Could anyone please help me solve it and let me know what could be going wrong?</p>
  
  <p>I am using Ubuntu 14.04 in VirtualBox, and the python version is 2.7.6.</p>