"E: Unable to locate package python-pip" on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I am trying to install virtualenv on Ubuntu.

First it said command 'pip' not found, so I typed

sudo apt install python-pip

then it said

E: Unable to locate package python-pip

I tried to reset WSL, download using cmd but it doesn't work with Ubuntu. I don't know why. Even though I have downloaded python3, virtualenv, and pip using cmd. It doesn't work with Ubuntu 18.04. It also fails on Ubuntu 14.04.

aiki@LAPTOP-886AEJJG:~$ pip

Command 'pip' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install python-pip

aiki@LAPTOP-886AEJJG:~$ sudo apt install python-pip
[sudo] password for aiki:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-pip

I'm trying to install jarvis and mycroft on win 10, but I need to use Ubuntu because it only works with Linux.

Solution 1

Try following command sequence on Ubuntu terminal:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pip

Solution 2

ls /bin/python*

Identify the highest version of python listed. If the highest version is something like python2.7 then install python2-pip If its something like python3.8 then install python3-pip

Example for python3.8:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Solution 3

Try the following commands in terminal, this will work better:

apt-get install curl

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

python get-pip.py

Solution 4

On some kind of Linux, like distros based on Debian, you might want to consider updating your 'apt-get' first, in case you are installing python-pip through it.

sudo apt-get update

This might help apt-get to update its indexes and locate the python-pip package. After this, u might install it like this-

sudo apt-get install python-pip (Python2)
sudo apt-get install python3-pip (Python3)

Solution 5

You might have python 3 pip installed already. Instead of pip install you can use pip3 install.

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Comments

[Aiki]

what does this mean "aiki@LAPTOP-886AEJJG:~/Jarvis$ ./setup.sh Specify python version(2/3)(Default-3)3 Selected python version 3 Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 22, in <module> import distutils.spawn ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'"

[BetaDev]

make sure python3 and pip3 if you are using version 3 and also make sure about the module that you have imported is i stalled using pip3. check the python version and pip version then check if the imported module on your code is available under those versions of python and pip.

[BetaDev]

for any other new problem, post new question on stack overflow but first search stack overflow for you new problem.

[Aiki]

how do i check the pip version? do i just type pip3?

[BetaDev]

pip --version and python --version. For you new problem, post new question on stack.

[hasany]

Hi, I have python2.7 installed in "/usr/lib/python2.7" and "/usr/local/bin/python2.7", when I run "sudo apt-get install python2-pip" it gives same error: "Unable to locate package python2-pip" ls /bin/python* outputs: bin/python3 /bin/python3.8 /bin/python3-futurize /bin/python3-pasteurize Is my python2.7 installed on wrong place?

[desgua]

This is the right answer for most having this problem IMHO.

[Tony Chou]

@Aiki use python3 -m pip --version

[Emre Tapcı]

Does not work in a docker container derived from ubuntu:latest

[nocomment]

I agree with @desgua.In my case whenever I ran python --version from the terminal it said Python 2.7.2. When I checked in the /bin/python*, however, there were several other 3.x versions installed. Worth checking out.

[alper]

Does not work in a google instance

[Snackoverflow]

sudo apt-get install python2-pip yields E: Unable to locate package python2-pip