How to upgrade pip3 on CentOS and RHEL 6/7 step by step guide

In this article we will learn how to install pip3 on CentOS and RHEL system which is very useful to install python packages for that reason it is called as python package manager.

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How to install Pip on CentOS and RHEL linux system

Pip package is not available the redhat or centos repo. We need to install epel to install the pip package.To install pip on the linux system we need to execute the below commands.

#yum install epel-release

#yum install python-pip

After install this package we need to verify the version of pip .

How to verify the version of pip

To verify the pip version which you have installed execute the below commands.

#pip –V

#pip3 –V

How to upgrade the version of pip

To upgrade version of pip we need to execute the below command.

# pip3.6 install --upgrade pip

Collecting pip

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5c/e0/be401c003291b56efc55aeba6a80ab790d3d4cece2778288d65323009420/pip-19.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4MB)

100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.4MB 8.0kB/s

Installing collected packages: pip

Found existing installation: pip 9.0.1

Uninstalling pip-9.0.1:

Successfully uninstalled pip-9.0.1

Successfully installed pip-19.1.1

How to upgrade pip3 on CentOS and RHEL 6/7 step by step guide

How to run pip to manage python packages

To manage python package ( inatall ,uninstall and search ) using pip we need to execute the below commands.

#pip install <package_name>

#pip uninstall <package_name>

#pip search <package_name>

Example:

# pip3.6 install mysql.connector

Collecting mysql.connector

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/28/04/e40098f3730e75bbe36a338926f566ea803550a34fb50535499f4fc4787a/mysql-connector-2.2.9.tar.gz (11.9MB)

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