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Koustav Chanda
Koustav Chanda

Reputation: 2385

PIP issue in Ubuntu 18.04 (pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'pip==10.0.1' distribution was not found and is required by the application)

After upgrading your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to the latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, while using pip or pip3 facing this issue:

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'pip==10.0.1' distribution was not found and is required by the application

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2021

Answers (2)

Betty
Betty

Reputation: 1

sudo apt-get purge python-pip
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
pip --version
rm get-pip.py

Above shell command works for me! For details, please refer to: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45887255/8596899

Upvotes: 0

Koustav Chanda
Koustav Chanda

Reputation: 2385

What seems to solve the problem.
Firstly, removing pip from the computer by sudo apt-get purge python-pip and then again reinstalling it by apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential or just sudo apt-get install python-pip wont fix the error. Because pip-9.0.1 is being installed by default.

Actual solution
Installing using curl helped, curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py and then python get-pip.py for python 2 and python3 get-pip.py for python 3.

Upvotes: 2

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