What is the correct format to upgrade pip3 when the default pip is pip2?
Solution 1
Just use the pip3
command you already have:
pip3 install --upgrade pip
The installed project is called pip
, always. The pip3
command is tied to your Python 3 installation and is an alias for pip
, but the latter is shadowed by the pip
command in your Python 2 setup.
You can do it with the associated Python binary too; if it executable as python3
, then use that:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
Again, the project is called pip
, and so is the module that is installed into your site-packages
directory, so stick to that name for the -m
command-line option and for the install
command.
Solution 2
When I searched for "how to update pip3" this came up. I had the problem described here in mind:
The Problem
Upgrading with pip3 might make point pip
to the Python 3 version.
It seems as if this is not the case (any more).
The solution
Update the one you want to keep after the one you want to upgrade. Hence
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip2 install --upgrade pip --force-reinstall
will make sure that pip
points to pip2
.
boardrider
Updated on October 17, 2020Comments
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boardrider over 3 years
I develop for both
Python 2
and3.
Thus, I have to use bothpip2
andpip3.
When using
pip3 -
I receive this upgrade request (last two lines):$ pip3 install arrow Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): arrow in c:\program files (x86)\python3.5.1\lib\site-packages Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): python-dateutil in c:\program files (x86)\python3.5.1\lib\site-packages (from arrow) Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six>=1.5 in c:\program files (x86)\python3.5.1\lib\site-packages (from python-dateutil->arrow) You are using pip version 7.1.2, however version 8.1.2 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
My default
pip
is forPython 2,
namely:$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip Requirement already up-to-date: pip in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
However, none of the following explicit commands succeed in upgrading the
Python 3 pip:
$ python -m pip3 install --upgrade pip3 /bin/python: No module named pip3 $ python -m pip install --upgrade pip3 Collecting pip3 Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pip3 (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for pip3 $ python -m pip install --upgrade pip3.4 Collecting pip3.4 Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pip3.4 (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for pip3.4
What is the correct command to upgrade pip3 when it is not the default pip?
Environment:
$ python3 -V Python 3.4.3 $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW 2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:27 i686 Cygwin