Installing PIP

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Around Python 3.6, installing PIP and setting up virtual environments became much more difficult.

These instructions may not work on your server.

PIP is installed with a python script.

Downloading the Installer

The pip installer is a python script. Download it and run it with python.

Run the following command to download and install pip into ~/.local/bin/:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py \
  && python3 get-pip.py --user

Now that pip is installed, installing python packages is easy.

Install packages by invoking the pip module.

$ python3 -m pip install --user numpy
Installing collected packages: numpy
Successfully installed numpy-1.16.2
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