https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/how-to-install-pip-on-centos-7/
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Pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages.@H_502_2@
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 very easy programming language to learn and master because of its focus on readability. Python is open source,and will run a a multitude of platforms including,but not limited to: VarIoUs Linux/UNIX distributions (CentOS,Ubuntu,Fedora,Debian,etc.),Microsoft Windows,and Mac OS X.@H_502_2@
- These instructions are intended specifically for installing Pip,a tool for installing and managing Python packages.
- I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed CentOS 7 server,and I’ll be logged in as root.
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There are two options for installing Pip. Use either Option #1 or Option #2 below.@H_502_2@
Pip is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL),which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the RHEL distribution. First,we’ll install the EPEL repository:@H_502_2@
rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm@H_502_2@
yum -y update@H_502_2@
Then let’s install python-pip and any required packages:@H_502_2@
yum -y install python-pip@H_502_2@
And skip toStep #3.@H_502_2@
We can also use curl and python to download and install Pip.@H_502_2@
curl "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"@H_502_2@
python get-pip.py@H_502_2@
View a list of helpful commands:@H_502_2@
pip --help@H_502_2@
Check the version of Pip that is installed:@H_502_2@
pip -V@H_502_2@
Which should yield something similar to:@H_502_2@
pip 1.3.1 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)@H_502_2@
