How to Install and upgrade PIP on CentOS 7

How to Install and upgrade PIP on CentOS 7

Pip is a package management system that simplifies installation and management of software packages written in Python such as those found in the Python Package Index (PyPI). Pip is not installed by default on CentOS 7, but the installation is pretty simple.

In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps required to install Python pip on CentOS 7 using the yum package manager and cover the basics of how to install and manage Python packages with pip.

you'll get this Error if "pip" is not installed :

-bash: pip: command not found

Unluckily, pip is not packaged in official software repositories of CentOS/RHEL. So you need to enable the EPEL repository and then install it like this.

1. Add the EPEL Repository

yum install epel-release

2. Install pip

yum install python-pip

3. Verify Pip installation

pip --version

[root@devserver ~]# pip --version
pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip (python 2.7)
[root@devserver ~]#

Install a package

pip install

[root@devserver ~]# pip install awscli
Collecting awscli
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/76/f4/63853217c2065cffaf84e7ca76d861509ee59c058959473f6b562cdda32f/awscli-1.16.265-py2.py3-none-any.whl (2.4MB)

Uninstall a package

pip uninstall  <package name>

pip uninstall awscli

Search packages

pip search "<package name>"

[root@devserver ~]# pip search "awscli"
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
awscli-cwlogs (1.4.6)                        - AWSCLI CloudWatch Logs plugin
okta-awscli (0.4.1)                          - Provides a wrapper for Okta authentication to awscli
awscli-bastion (0.8.3)                       - awscli-bastion extends the awscli by managing mfa protected short-lived credentials
                                               for an aws bastion account.
awscli-sqsall (1.0.1)                        - awscli pulgin to treat SQS queues more like files
awscli (1.18.47)                             - Universal Command Line Environment for AWS.

If you want to Test python Programs, you can check out this article.

List Installed Packages

pip list

[root@devserver ~]# pip list
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Package                          Version
-------------------------------- -------
ansible                          2.9.6
awscli                           1.18.26
Babel                            0.9.6
backports.ssl-match-hostname     3.5.0.1
botocore                         1.15.26

Upgrade PIP

pip install --upgrade pip

  root@exampleserver ~]# pip install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/54/0c/d01aa759fdc501a58f431eb594a17495f15b88da142ce14b5845662c13f3/pip-20.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.4MB 739kB/s
Installing collected packages: pip
  Found existing installation: pip 8.1.2
    Uninstalling pip-8.1.2:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-8.1.2
Successfully installed pip-20.0.2
[root@exampleserver ~]#