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mahacoder
mahacoder

Reputation: 913

pip, easy_install commands not working in Ubuntu. Python 2.7 and 3.4 are installed

I'm fairly new to python. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and have both python 2.7.6 and python 3.4.0 installed. I was trying to install BeautifulSoup but couldn't because I get an error saying 

The program 'pip' is currently not installed.

I found that it comes bundles with python 3.4. I tried to install pip using sudo easy_install pip as mentioned in another question on stackoverflow. But this gives an error sudo: easy_install: command not found.

What is the problem?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 51153

Answers (3)

Kourosh Taheri-Golvarzi
Kourosh Taheri-Golvarzi

Reputation: 134

Unfortunately, effective as of April 2018, python-setuptools no longer ships with easy_install, as per Matthias's update:

https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-main-i386/python-setuptools_39.0.1-2_all.deb.html

However, you can still compile from the source code yourself, and it does work. I just tried it with sudo easy_install shodan, and it ran successfully.

git clone https://github.com/pypa/setuptools.git
cd ./setuptools
python3 bootstrap.py
sudo python3 setup.py install

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 2

soundlake
soundlake

Reputation: 329

How aboutapt-get install python-pip? At least, Debian official repository has python-pip even from wheezy.

Upvotes: 4

ceejayoz
ceejayoz

Reputation: 180014

pip appears to have turned into python -m pip (in your case, python3 -m pip, as Ubuntu's keeping the 2.x line available as python) in Python 3.4.

easy_install for Python 2.7 comes as part of the python-setuptools package. Once installed, running easy_install pip would install pip for your Python 2.7 installation's use.

Upvotes: 8

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