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

Question

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?

@ceejayoz This worked. Now I have easy_install and pip. But why do you think pip was not present in the first place? Isn't it supposed to present in python 3.4. — mahacoder, Feb 01 '15 at 18:04
Are you sure you're using Python 3.4? If you do `python --version`, what does it show? — ceejayoz, Feb 01 '15 at 18:04
https://docs.python.org/3/installing/ says you'd do `python -m pip install SomePackage` instead of `pip install SomePackage` in 3.4, incidentally. — ceejayoz, Feb 01 '15 at 18:05
`python --version` is showing `Python 2.7.6` and `python3 --version` is showing `Python 3.4.0` — mahacoder, Feb 01 '15 at 18:08
OK, so `python3 -m pip install SomePackage` for you if you want the package for your Python 3.4 install. `pip install SomePackage` if you want the package installed for your Python 2.7 install. — ceejayoz, Feb 01 '15 at 18:09
@PadraicCunningham No, I didn't. I had to get pip3 using easy_install. — mahacoder, Feb 01 '15 at 19:10

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '15 at 18:07

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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.

answered Feb 01 '15 at 18:07

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Yes. You are correct. When I tried running `python3 -m pip` I'm getting `/usr/local/bin: No module named pip`. So how do I get pip for python 3.4? – mahacoder Feb 01 '15 at 18:11
@ak31 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24137291/ubuntu-pip-not-working-with-python3-4 seems to be the same problem, with solution. – ceejayoz Feb 01 '15 at 18:21

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 02 '16 at 09:25

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

answered Dec 02 '16 at 09:25

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Kourosh Taheri-Golvarzi · Answer 3 · 2019-12-08T20:06:12.323

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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.

edited Dec 08 '19 at 20:06

answered Dec 08 '19 at 19:59

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Thank you! this saved the day. python-setuptools indeed no longer ships with easy_instlall but there are so many tutorials/answers out there that say it will work. This saved me so much time. Thank you! – nelsonenzo Jan 03 '20 at 01:39
Anytime, brother. – Kourosh Taheri-Golvarzi Jan 04 '20 at 01:33

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

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