Steps To Install PIP In Amazon Linux Or RHEL Or CentOS

In this article, we’ll explain the steps to Install PIP in Amazon Linux or RHEL or CentOS. The Full form of Pip [“Pip Installs Packages”] or [“Pip Installs Python“], If you are using Python 2 or higher version then pip is already installed.

Here we are running all mention commands with the root user, if you don’t have root access to the Linux system then you can use sudo

Steps to Install PIP in Amazon Linux or RHEL or CentOS

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Steps to Install PIP in Amazon Linux or RHEL or CentOS

Install PIP On Ubuntu

Install pip using Python Script

How to use PIP in Linux:

PIP Help command Output

To install pip on Linux, follow the below steps as per your distribution:

Here you’ll need EPEL repo because pip is not packed in the software repo of CentOS and RHEL.

# yum install epel-release
# yum install python-pip

Install PIP On Ubuntu

# apt install python3-pip    #python 3
# apt install python-pip    #python 2

Install pip using Python Script

$ curl "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"

$ python get-pip.py     

$ python3 get-pip.py      # For specific python version

$ pip -V     

$ pip3 -V        # For specific python version

$ pip --help

How to use PIP in Linux:

# pip install <mention-package-name>

# pip uninstall <mention-package-name>

# pip search <mention-package-name>

To get help/to explore more pip command:

#pip help

PIP Help command Output

Usage:   

  pip <command> [options]

Commands:

  install                     Install packages.

  download                    Download packages.

  uninstall                   Uninstall packages.

  freeze                      Output installed packages in requirements format.

  list                        List installed packages.

  show                        Show information about installed packages.

  check                       Verify installed packages have compatible dependencies.

  search                      Search PyPI for packages.

  wheel                       Build wheels from your requirements.

  hash                        Compute hashes of package archives.

  completion                  A helper command used for command completion.

  help                        Show help for commands.

End of Article – Steps to Install PIP in Amazon Linux or RHEL or CentOS.

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