How to install Python pip on Ubuntu 20.04

How to Install pip On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

On this short article we will learn how to install pip (Package Installer for Python) for Python 2 and pip for Python 3 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS operating system.

Introduction

Package Installer for Python (pip) is the de facto and recommended package-management system written in Python and is used to install and manage software packages. Most distributions of Python come with pip preinstalled. On this article, we will learn how to install pip for Python 2 and pip for Python 3.

On Ubuntu operating system version, starting from Ubuntu 20.04, Python 2 is available for installation from the Universe repository while Python 3 is included in the base system installation. For this reason, users are advised to switch to Python 3.

The article structure will be as following :

Install pip For Python 2
1. Update Repository
2. Adding Universe Repository
3. Install Python 2
4. Download get-pip.py Script And Install pip
5. Verify pip Installation

Install pip For Python 3
1. Update and Install Python3 pip
2. Verify pip Version for Python 3

Install pip For Python 2

As mentioned above, if pip for Python 2 is not included in the Ubuntu 20.04 repositories but available on Universe repository. For install pip for Python 2 we have to user get-pip.py command. For installing pip for Python 2 will be performed as following task.

1. Update Repository

By updating repository, we will refresh our system to the latest package version, this task is performed by submitting command line :

$ sudo apt update

2. Adding Universe Repository

We will add universe repository to our Ubuntu system, by submitting command line :

$ sudo add-apt-repository universe

3. Install Python 2

To take effect of adding new repository, we will update system again by submitting command line :

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install python2

Output :

mpik@otodiginet:~$ sudo apt install python2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libmecab2 mecab-ipadic mecab-ipadic-utf8 mecab-utils
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal
Suggested packages:
python2-doc python-tk python2.7-doc binutils binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib python2 python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 389 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,816 kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 libpython2.7-minimal amd64 2.7.18-1~20.04.1 [335 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 python2.7-minimal amd64 2.7.18-1~20.04.1 [1,285 kB]
 . . .
Setting up libpython2.7-stdlib:amd64 (2.7.18-1~20.04.1) ...
Setting up python2.7 (2.7.18-1~20.04.1) ...
Setting up libpython2-stdlib:amd64 (2.7.17-2ubuntu4) ...
Setting up python2 (2.7.17-2ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu2) ...

4. Download get-pip.py Script And Install pip

By using curl command line, we will download get-pip.py script. We will subnit command line :

$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py –output get-pip.py

Output :

mpik@otodiginet:~$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1863k 100 1863k 0 0 1680k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 1680k

Then run the script  with sudo user with python2 to install pip for Python 2, as shown below:

$ sudo python2 get-pip.py

Output :

mpik@otodiginet:~$ sudo python2 get-pip.py
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
Collecting pip<21.0
Downloading pip-20.3.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 1.5 MB 1.6 MB/s 
Collecting setuptools<45
Downloading setuptools-44.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (583 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 583 kB 2.4 MB/s 
Collecting wheel
Downloading wheel-0.37.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools, wheel
Successfully installed pip-20.3.4 setuptools-44.1.1 wheel-0.37.0

5. Verify pip Installation

We will verify the pip for Python2 installation by querying its version.

$ pip2 --version

Output :

mpik@otodiginet:~$ pip2 --version
pip 20.3.4 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip (python 2.7)

Install pip For Python 3

On this stage, we will install pip for Python 3 on Ubuntu 20.04 by submitting commands as root or sudo user.

1. Update and Install Python3 pip

$ sudo apt-update
$ sudo apt install python3-pip

Output :

mpik@otodiginet:~$ sudo apt install python3-pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libmecab2 mecab-ipadic mecab-ipadic-utf8 mecab-utils
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu build-essential dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-9 gcc gcc-9
libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libasan5 libatomic1 libbinutils libc-dev-bin libc6
libc6-dbg libc6-dev libcrypt-dev libctf-nobfd0 libctf0 libexpat1-dev libfakeroot libgcc-9-dev libitm1 liblsan0
libpython3-dev libpython3.8-dev libquadmath0 libstdc++-9-dev libtsan0 libubsan1 linux-libc-dev make manpages-dev
python-pip-whl python3-dev python3-distutils python3-setuptools python3-wheel python3.8-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev
Suggested packages:
binutils-doc debian-keyring g++-multilib g++-9-multilib gcc-9-doc gcc-multilib autoconf automake libtool flex bison gcc-doc
gcc-9-multilib gcc-9-locales glibc-doc libstdc++-9-doc make-doc python-setuptools-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu build-essential dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-9 gcc gcc-9
libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libasan5 libatomic1 libbinutils libc-dev-bin
libc6-dev libcrypt-dev libctf-nobfd0 libctf0 libexpat1-dev libfakeroot libgcc-9-dev libitm1 liblsan0 libpython3-dev
libpython3.8-dev libquadmath0 libstdc++-9-dev libtsan0 libubsan1 linux-libc-dev make manpages-dev python-pip-whl python3-dev
python3-distutils python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel python3.8-dev zlib1g-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6 libc6-dbg zlib1g
3 upgraded, 43 newly installed, 0 to remove and 386 not upgraded.
Need to get 41.7 MB/54.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 216 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
...
etting up g++ (4:9.3.0-1ubuntu2) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/g++ to provide /usr/bin/c++ (c++) in auto mode
Setting up build-essential (12.8ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up python3-dev (3.8.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9) ...

Verify pip Version for Python 3

We will verify the pip for Python2 installation by querying its version.

$ pip3 --version

Output :

mpik@otodiginet:~$ pip3 --version
pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)

Conclusion

On this tutorial, we have learnt how to install pip for Python 2 and Python 3 succesfully.

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