When you install Python on macOS or Windows and follow our recommendations, pip installs with the interpreter. On Ubuntu, you have to install it separately with this command:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
Running pip
You can call pip directly with the pip
command, but it is better to use a longer one. It guarantees to bring up the latest installed pip version for the desired version of Python.
So, let us call pip:
python3 -m pip --version
pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)
When showing its version, pip also tells you where it locates and what version of Python it runs on.
Note the structure of the command we called. This command means «python3
, run the -m
module named pip
as a program with the --version
parameter».
If you later see commands like pip help
in the pip documentation, you can call python3 -m pip help
. The result will be the same.