Where is pip installed using get-pip.py --user on Linux server

Question

I'm sshing into a Linux server as a user. Somehow, the server has Python 2.7.5 installed but doesn't respond to which pip.

So I tried to install pip using get-pip.py according to pip docs. The default install option seemed problematic:

$ python get-pip.py
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip'

So I tried:

$ python get-pip.py --user
Collecting pip
  Using cached pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting setuptools
  Using cached setuptools-28.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting wheel
  Using cached wheel-0.29.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools, wheel
Successfully installed pip-9.0.1 setuptools-28.8.0 wheel-0.29.0

But which pip still produces no pip in ...(my PATH). Where was it installed, can someone make a guess?

Answer 1

If pip is installed via python get-pip.py --user, the executable should be located at $HOME/.local/bin/pip:

Update the path (e.g. in ~/.bashrc): PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin/

$ which pip ~/.local/bin/pip