How to install pip for Python 2

Question

I run

python --version

and get

Python 2.7.3

I run

pip --version

and get

pip 1.5 from /usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-1.5-py3.2.egg (python 3.2)

I installed pip using apt-get. How to I get the Python 2 version of pip?

I've reinstalled python and python-pip several times with apt-get. I'm also curious why these would install different Python versions.

Answer 1

To install pip for Python2 on Ubuntu, this worked for me

sudo apt update curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py sudo python2 get-pip.py 

It's based on DareDevil7's answer but notice the url is different.

Answer 2

I would suggest that you use pyenv to manage multiple versions of Python, because it can often get problematic. Right now the solution to the problem would depend on the configuration you have for pip and python in your bash.

One thing you can do is download the easy_install script, and use python 3 to run it and install pip for python 3 alone.

Answer 3

If there are both python2.7 and python3 in you ubuntu system,run this

sudo apt install python-pip

There will be pip for python3 ,pip2 for python2

Answer 4

If you really want to install pip globally for your system use the get-pip.py script with the wanted python binary http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#install-or-upgrade-pip

python2.7 get-pip.py

But you should consider using virtualenv / buildout to get an isolated environment