Bash: pip: command not found for an Install

Question

I am trying to install pip install twilio onto a raspberry pi for a school project but, I type in the command the it says bash: pip: command not found. I have tried to intall many pip packages, but it still won't read that code. Is there something that I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

pip is a package manager specific to Python, and is not installed by default on many systems.

So you first need to install pip. Assuming you are using raspbian, you need to use the apt-get command, which is the general-purpose package manager for Debian-based Linux systems such as raspbian:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

or the Python 2 version:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

then you should be able to install Python packages such as twilio using pip.

See this archive of the old Raspberry Pi guide for installing Python packages.