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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.