How can I switch using pip between system and anaconda

Question

I am now using anaconda pip after I installed pip by "conda install pip", if I want to use system pip again, how can I make it? Or how can I switch system pip to anaconda pip?

Answer 1

Odds are that anaconda automatically edited your .bashrc so that anaconda/bin is in front of your /usr/bin folder in your $PATH variable. To check this, type echo $PATH, and the command line will return a list of directory paths. Your computer checks each of these places for pip when you type pip in the command line. It executes the first one it finds in your PATH.

You can open /home/username/.bashrc with whatever text editor you choose. Wherever it adds anaconda/bin to the path, with something like export PATH=/anaconda/bin:$PATH , just replace it with export PATH=$PATH:/anaconda/bin

Note though, this will change your OS to use your system python as well. Instead of all of this, you can always just use the direct path to pip when calling it. Or you can alias it using alias pip=/path/to/system/pip. And you can put that line in your .bashrc file in order to apply it whenever you login to the pc.

Answer 2

You don't need to change your path. Just use the full path to the system pip (generally /usr/bin/pip or /usr/local/bin/pip) to use the system pip.