How to Install Pip in Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Mint?

Pip is a python package manager. Python packages and libraries can be installed in different ways to the system. We can also use the distribution provided package manager to install Python libraries. Python packages can get from pypi.python.org . How can we install pip in Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, or similar dpkg, apt-based distributions.

“Command ‘pip’ not found, but can be installed with:” Error

If pip is not installed in the current system we will get an error like below.

We can see that the pip  can be installed with the following command. But keep in mind that this will install pip command for the Python version 2 or Python2. We can explicitly specify that we want to install pip3 or pip for Python 3.

$ sudo apt install python-pip

OR with the following command, we can install pip for Python3. As we can see that the package name for the Python3 Pip is python3-pip

$ sudo apt install python3-pip

If we want to get more information about the Pip package for the Python3 before the installation we can list python3-pip package information with the apt shown command like below.

$ apt show python3-pip

We can see that this will list Python3 Pip package information like Package Name ,Pip Version which is 9.0.1. in this case. Section ,Source , Origin , Maintainer , Installed Size , Dependencies etc.

Install Pip2 For Python2

We assume that distribution default Python version 2. This makes the keyword by default Python2. So we can just use the following command.

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip

Show Pip Version For Python2

As Python is a dynamic language and provides updates about libraries pip will also get updates. This will cause pip version to change. We can print the current version of the pip command with the --version option like below.

$ pip -V
$ pip --version

OR

$ pip3 -V
$ pip3 --version

OR

$ pip2 -V
$ pip2 --version

Print Help For Pip

More information and help about pip can be printed with the --help option like below.

$ pip --help

“Command ‘pip3’ not found, but can be installed with:” Error

If pip is not installed in the current system we will get an error like below.

Install Pip3 For Python3

Pip3 is a package manager for specifically Python3. So Python2 and Python3 package managers are different. How can we install Pip3 into Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, or related dpkg or apt distros like below.

$ sudo apt install python3-pip

Show Pip3 Version For Python3

Python3 is a dynamic language and provides updates about libraries pip3 will also get updates. This will cause pip3 version to change. We can print the current version of the pip3 command with the --version option like below.

$ pip3 --version

As we can see that the current version of Python is 3.6 and pip version is 9.0.1.

Print Help For Pip3

We can print help information about the pip3 with the --help an option like below.

$ pip3 --help

We can see that the installed pip3 command provides the following options or commands.

• install is used to install a Python or Pip Package
• download is used to only download a Python or Pip Package
• uninstall is used to uninstall or remove a Python or Pip Package
• list is used to list all installed a Python or Pip Package
• show is used to show detailed information about a Python or Pip Package
• search is used to search a Python or Pip Package

Install Package with Pip For Python2

After installation of the pip package is complete we can install packages by using pip command. In this example, we will install the popular web framework named Django with pip command.

$ pip install django

Install Package with Pip3 Command For Python3

We can also install new packages with pip3 command we will install the Django package with pip3 command.

$ pip3 install django