How to Install Pip on Fedora 20
Pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages.
Python is a programming language. It is quite popular and has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability. It is widely considered to be a straightforward programming language to learn and master because of its focus on readability. Python is open source, and will run a multitude of platforms including, but not limited to: Various Linux/UNIX distributions (CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X.
- These instructions are intended specifically for installing Pip, a tool for installing and managing Python packages.
- I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 20 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.
There are two options for installing Pip. Use either Option #1 or Option #2 below.
First, clean-up yum:
yum clean all
As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:
yum -y update
Then let’s install python-pip and any required packages:
yum -y install python-pip
And skip to Step #3.
We can also use curl and python to download and install Pip.
curl "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"
python get-pip.py
View a list of helpful commands:
pip --help
Check the version of Pip that is installed:
pip -V
Which should yield something similar to:
pip 1.4.1 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)
or
pip 6.0.8 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)
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