I need to get pip3 running on my Mac terminal for a project. I have python3 installed, and I can run it, but when I try to run pip3 freeze, it says my command is not found.
I thought it would be automatically installed when I installed Python3. I tried to sudo install it, but it still didn't do anything. What can I do?
Besides brew install pip3, in case brew is not installed on your Mac, you can install pip3 via get_pip.py which can be found here. Assuming that python3 is already installed, cd to the directory where you saved get_pip.py and run the file with python3 get_pip.py. This should get pip3 installed on your machine.
On my MacBook Pro (10.13.5), which pip3 shows that it is located at /opt/local/bin/pip3 but it is a symlink to /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/pip3.
This is the location of python3 if you installed it via MacPorts. If you installed it with HomeBrew, then it would be /usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.0/bin/pip3 (again, version might vary).
Finding pip3
What I would do if I were you is first find out where your pip3 actually is by either using locate or trying to manually find it by typing (Change 3.6 to whatever version you're on.) either:
$ /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/pip3 --version
or:
$ /usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.0/bin/pip3 --version
You should see something like:
pip 9.0.3 from /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (python 3.6)
Otherwise, use locate:
$ locate pip3
As a last resort, the slow find can also be useful:
$ sudo find / -name pip3
Build a Symlink
Then, make a symbolic link to that file in a path that is in your $PATH (again, ensure you replace the first path with the path to your actual pip3):
$ sudo ln -s /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/pip3 /opt/local/bin/pip3
Assuming you are using Python 3.4 or later in which pip is included by default, try the following command:
python3 -m pip freeze
When you use the -m command-line flag, python will search sys.path for the named module and execute its contents as the __main__ module. (more here)
This solution will allow you to use pip by python3 -m pip, but in order to use pip3 directly you can:
Install it via Homebrew:
brew install pip3
Install it with get-pip.py:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
You could try brew install pip3. Or check where pip is installed, that might point to Python 3's version.
Related
I'm trying to use pip to install some packages that I need, but I came across a problem. My default version of python is python3.10 but when I try using pip to install packages for it, it installes them for python3.8
This is the output of pip --version:
pip 22.1.2 from /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)
Is there a way to change this so that I can install packages for python 3.10?
When I try to run python3 -m pip --version I get:
/usr/local/bin/python3: No module named pip
Download get-pip.py file from any of the following options:
Download it manually from here.
Download it from terminal/cmd using: wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
Download it from terminal/cmd using: curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
Then run the command python3 get-pip.py, it will install pip in the python version invoked by python3(which is 3.10 as you have stated).
Install packages using command python3 -m pip install package_name
Since you've said you can call the desired python version with the command python3, it's best to call pip via
python3 -m pip
This ensures you're installing packages to the correct version (Dealing with multiple Python versions and PIP?).
To install pip if it's missing, you can use ensurepip (as per this answer)
python3 -m ensurepip
It's probably worth mentioning venv which lets you create a local python environment to keep your packages separate for different projects.
I am using OSX and I have pip installed for both Python3.5 and Python2.7. I know I can run the command pip2 to use Python2 and when I use the command pip3 Python3.x will be used.
The problem is that the default of pip is set to Python2.7 and I want it to be Python3.x.
How can I change that?
edit:
No, I am not running a virtual environment yet. If it was a virtual environment I could just run Python3.x and forget all about Python2.7, unfortunately since OSX requires Python2.7 for it's use I can't do that. Hence why I'm asking this.
Thanks for the answer. I however don't want to change what running python does. Instead I would like to change the path that running pip takes. At the moment pip -V shows me pip 8.1.2 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (python 2.7), but I am looking for pip 8.1.2 from /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5) I am sure there has to be a way to do this. Any ideas?
Run this:
pip3 install --upgrade --force pip
or even more explicit:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade --force pip
This will install pip for Python 3 and make Python 3 version of pip default.
Validate with:
pip -V
I always just run it via Python itself, this way:
python3 -m pip install some_module
or
python2 -m pip install some_module
The -m calls the __main__.py module of a specified package. Pip supports this.
Can't you alias pip='pip3' in your ~/.bash_profile?
In Terminal, run nano ~/.bash_profile, then add a line to the end that reads alias pip='pip3'. This is safe; it won't affect system processes, only your terminal.
For your projects, you should be using a virtualenv.
You can choose which python will be that of the virtualenv at creation time, by specifying it on the command line:
virtualenv -p python3 env
# then
. env/bin/activate
python # ← will run python3
That python interpreter will be the one used when you run python or pip while the virtualenv is active.
Under the hood, activating the virtualenv will:
modify your PATH environment setting so binaries in env/bin
override those from your system.
modify your PYTHONHOME
environment setting so python modules are loaded from env/lib.
So python, pip and any other package you install with pip will be run from the virtualenv, with the python version you chose and the package versions you installed in the virtualenv.
Other than this, running python without using virtualenv will just run the default python of the system, which you cannot usually change as it would break a lot of system scripts.
It works for me:
As super-user
Uninstall pip
sudo pip uninstall pip
Install pip
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade --force pip
Check install path
sudo pip -V
As local-user
Uninstall pip
pip uninstall pip
Install pip
python3 -m pip install --upgrade --force pip
Check install path
pip -V
Although PEP 394 does not specifically mention pip, it does discuss a number of other Python-related commands (including python itself). The short version is that, for reasons of backwards compatibility, the unversioned commands should refer to Python 2.x for the immediate future on most reasonable systems.
Generally, these aliases are implemented as symbolic links, and you can just flip the symlink to point at the version you want (e.g. with ln -f -s $(which pip3) $(which pip) as root). But it may not be a good idea if you have any software that expects to interact with Python 2 (which may be more than you think since a lot of software interacts with Python).
The saner option is to set up a Virtualenv with Python 3. Then, within the Virtualenv, all Python-related commands will refer to 3.x instead of 2.x. This will not break the system, unlike the previous paragraph which could well break things.
Since you have specified in the comments you want syntax like pip install [package] to work, here is a solution:
Install setuptools for Python3: apt-get install python3-setuptools
Now pip for Python3 could be installed by: python3 -m easy_install pip
Now you can use pip with the specific version of Python to
install package for Python 3 by: pip-3.2 install [package]
Why not just repoint the link /bin/python to python3? It seems like the easiest solution. Especially if you want it for all users of your system.
Having a weird problem with pip on os x.
As far as I can recall (and a quick look at my .bash_history seems to confirm) I have not made any recent changes to my configuration. Alas, the pip command seems to be suddenly using a different version of python than it was previously. Up until now I was using the command pip to manage my python2 libraries and pip3 to manage by python3 libraries. Suddenly, any attempts at running pip install fails with errors like missing parenthesis around print statements.
Here is the result of a few commands I attempted to figure out the problem:
which pip > /usr/local/bin/pip
which pip3 > /usr/local/bin/pip3
which python > /usr/local/bin/python
python version > Python 2.7.11
pip --version > pip 8.1.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5)
So for some reason the pip command seems to be running from the PyPi2 database but in python3 now? Any ideas how to fix this?
I run with multiple Python versions and thus multiple pip versions as well.
Everytime, however, you update pip, you'll replace the standard pip command with the version you updated. So even pip3 install --upgrade pip will put a /usr/local/bin/pip in your system, messing up the Python 2 version.
Instead, I run pip as an (executable) module:
python3 -m pip search <package>
or
python2 -m pip search <package>
or even
python3.5 -m pip search <package>
This guarantees that your pip version always matches the Python version you want to use it for. It's somewhat longer to type, but I prefer the expliciteness of it (which, I guess, follows the Zen of Python).
Note that updating pip:
python3.5 -m pip install --upgrade pip
will still install a Python 3.5 version in /usr/local/bin/pip, but I'm simply ignoring that. Just beware of (shell) scripts that execute pip directly.
Find absolute path to Python you'd like to use:
which python
Open your default pip executable script:
vi $(which pip)
You will see a shebang line at the top which may point to wrong Python (i had that once too).
Point to the Python you want (see step 1), e.g.:
#!/usr/local/bin/python3.7
Try setting aliases by running the following commands in Terminal,
alias pip="/usr/local/bin/pip"
alias pip2="/usr/local/bin/pip"
alias pip3="/usr/local/bin/pip3"
If this solves your problem then you need to add the aliases in your bash profile.
Look How do I create a Bash alias? for more info.
Alternatively, you have to reinstall pip using python2 get-pip.py first and then python3 get-pip.py get-pip.py can be downloaded here https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
I had exactly the same problem!
I reinstall python2 by brew brew reinstall python#2
after reinstall, pip install packagename works!
None of these worked for me so what I did was navigate to
C:\Users(User)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\
and deleted all the old python versions I wasn't using. (Worked)
I run
python --version
and get
Python 2.7.3
I run
pip --version
and get
pip 1.5 from /usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-1.5-py3.2.egg (python 3.2)
I installed pip using apt-get. How to I get the Python 2 version of pip?
I've reinstalled python and python-pip several times with apt-get. I'm also curious why these would install different Python versions.
To install pip for Python2 on Ubuntu, this worked for me
sudo apt update
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
sudo python2 get-pip.py
It's based on DareDevil7's answer but notice the url is different.
If there are both python2.7 and python3 in you ubuntu system,run this
sudo apt install python-pip
There will be pip for python3 ,pip2 for python2
I would suggest that you use pyenv to manage multiple versions of Python, because it can often get problematic. Right now the solution to the problem would depend on the configuration you have for pip and python in your bash.
One thing you can do is download the easy_install script, and use python 3 to run it and install pip for python 3 alone.
If you really want to install pip globally for your system use the get-pip.py script with the wanted python binary http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#install-or-upgrade-pip
python2.7 get-pip.py
But you should consider using virtualenv / buildout to get an isolated environment
Download the tar.gz of pip from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip#downloads.
Unzip or Untar, Then from its untar directory install for any specific version of python using
python2.7 setup.py install
or
python3.3 setup.py install
Run the following Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
run this
python2.7 -m ensurepip --upgrade
Its a not a good idea to install pip for python2 system wide. I guess, you need to run a project with python2. The best solution is vritualenv.
I am making an assumption that in your installation which python2 returns /usr/bin/python2.7
1. sudo apt install python2-pip-whl
2. sudo apt install python2-setuptools-whl
3 virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 YOURPROJECT
4. source YOURPROJECT/bin/activate
The last command will now activate the virtual environment and in this environment, your python is python2.7 and pip is installed for python2.7 as well.
You can deactivate your virtual environment using deactivate.
OS X (Mavericks) has Python 2.7 stock installed. But I do all my own personal Python stuff with 3.3. I just flushed my 3.3.2 install and installed the new 3.3.3. So I need to install pyserial again. I can do it the way I've done it before, which is:
Download pyserial from pypi
untar pyserial.tgz
cd pyserial
python3 setup.py install
But I'd like to do like the cool kids do, and just do something like pip3 install pyserial. But it's not clear how I get to that point. And just that point. Not interested (unless I have to be) in virtualenv yet.
UPDATE: This is no longer necessary as of Python3.4. pip3 is installed as part of the general Python3 installation.
I ended up posting this same question on the python mailing list, and got the following answer:
# download and install setuptools
curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py
python3 ez_setup.py
# download and install pip
curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py
Which solved my question perfectly. After adding the following for my own:
cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/bin/pip pip
So that I could run pip directly, I was able to:
# use pip to install
pip install pyserial
or:
# Don't want it?
pip uninstall pyserial
I had to go through this process myself and chose a different way that I think is better in the long run.
I installed homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
then:
brew doctor
The last step gives you some warnings and errors that you have to resolve. One of those will be to download and install the Mac OS X command-line tools.
then:
brew install python3
This gave me python3 and pip3 in my path.
pieter$ which pip3 python3
/usr/local/bin/pip3
/usr/local/bin/python3
Install Python3 on mac
1. brew install python3
2. curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3
3. python3
Use pip3 to install modules
1. pip3 install ipython
2. python3 -m IPython
:)
Here is my simple solution:
If you have python2 and python3 both installed in your system, the pip upgrade will point to python2 by default. Hence, we must specify the version of python(python3) and use the below command:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
This command will uninstall the previously installed pip and install the new version- upgrading your pip.
This will save memory and declutter your system.
Image - How the upgrading of pip in Python3 works on MacOS
Plus:
when you install requests with python3, the command is:
pip3 install requests
not
pip install requests
brew install python3
create alias in your shell profile
eg. alias pip3="python3 -m pip" in my .zshrc
➜ ~ pip3 --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (python 3.6)
To use Python EasyInstall (which is what I think you're wanting to use), is super easy!
sudo easy_install pip
so then with pip to install Pyserial you would do:
pip install pyserial
On Mac OS X Mojave python stands for python of version 2.7 and python3 for python of version 3. The same is pip and pip3. So, to upgrade pip for python 3 do this:
~$ sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
Also, it's worth to mention that Max OSX/macOS users can just use Homebrew to install pip3.
$> brew update
$> brew install python3
$> pip3 --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (python 3.6)
On MacOS 10.12
download pip: pip as get-pip.py
download python3: python3
install python3
open terminal: python3 get-pip.py
pip3 is available
pip is installed automatically with python2 using brew:
brew install python3
pip3 --version
simply run following on terminal if you don't have pip installed on your mac.
sudo easy_install pip
download python 3 here: python3
once you're done with these 2 steps, make sure to run the following to verify whether you've installed them successfully.
python3 --version
pip3 --version
For a fresh new Mac, you need to follow below steps:-
Make sure you have installed Xcode
sudo easy_install pip
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew doctor
brew doctor
brew install python3
And you are done, just type python3 on terminal and you will see python 3 installed.
I had the same problem with python3 and pip3. Decision: solving all conflicts with links and other stuff when do
brew doctor
After that
brew reinstall python3
I'm using MacOS 11.6 and in my case I did two things;
Install Python 3 from https://www.python.org/downloads/macos/ clicking on first link Download macOS 64-bit universal2 installer from Stable Releases list
Create alias for Python3 running the following command on Terminal echo "alias python='/usr/bin/python3'" > ~/.bash_profile
After that open a new terminal and type python -V to check if the version of python 3 is enabled by default for your use so now you can use the command pip3 to install your packages like pip3 install somepackage
use port to install it, it is better than brew, in case you have an old machine.
sudo port install py38-pip