How to find my pip?

Question

Yesterday I installed the pip with

python get-pip.py

and it can be regular used. Now it shows this.

-bash: pip: command not found

so I try to use python get-pip.py to install it again.

Requirement already up-to-date: pip in /usr/local/python-2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages

But what about the PATH?

Then I try to add all of involved path into PATH.

/usr/local/python-2.7.11/bin/pip:/usr/local/python-2.7.11/bin/python2.7:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/python-2.7.11/bin/python

None of those work.

I saw some similar questions which told me to find the correct path.

# which python

# /usr/bin/python

which pip

...(nothing)

The python's installed path is /usr/local/python-2.7.11. I used ln -s /usr/local/python-2.7.11/bin/python /usr/bin/python before install pip.

My system is Debian7.

Solution

When you install pip with python getpip.py, the pip command gets installed next to the python binary. In your case that is /usr/local/2.7.11/bin. As your python executable is found through its link, that directory is not used for any other commands.

Your PATH should have paths, i.e. directories, not full file names. The directory to include in your PATH is /usr/local/python-2.7.11/bin. If you do that you can get rid of the link.

You can also setup a link:

ln -s /usr/local/python-2.7.11/bin/pip  /usr/bin/pip

As python is found because of the link, and pip installed (but not found), you can also invoke pip by doing:

python -m pip 

and you can make that into an alias if you don't want to add an extra link:

alias pip='/usr/local/python-2.7.11/bin/python -m pip'

Comments

[Prometheus]

No module named pip error

[Anthon]

yes that is what you get before you install pip with python getpip.py, thanks for sharing.

[Jake]

this worked for me alias pip='/usr/local/python-2.7.11/bin/python -m pip'