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Upgrading packages with pip is not working properly

I am using pip in Ubuntu 20.04 with Python 3.8. I am trying to upgrade some packages and it seems to work since it does not give any error message. However, if I do pip show for the desired package, the version remains unchanged.
For instance, in the case of pip itself I am doing the following:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
And I am obtaining:
Collecting pip
Using cached pip-20.3.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-20.3.3
Then, when I try to check the installed version with pip show pip, I get the following:
Name: pip
Version: 20.0.2
Summary: The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.
Home-page: https://pip.pypa.io/
Author: The pip developers
Author-email: pypa-dev#groups.google.com
License: MIT
Location: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
Requires:
Required-by: pip-upgrade
I have observed this problem also for scipy. However, I have been able to upgrade virtualenv and seaborn following the same procedure described above.
On the other hand, if I do the same upgrade process using sudo it does work. However, I would like to have the new versions installed not only for superuser.
Thanks in advance.

You may have multiple installations of Python on your system.
First provide the full name for Python 3.8 when installing pip to make sure it is installing pip for 3.8.
python3.8 -m pip install --upgrade pip
You could also try to use the pip specifically for Python 3.8. It is usually called pip3.8.
It could also be the environment you are installing it in. It's better to use pip --version so that you know where it is pulling pip from, as well the version of Python being used.
pip3.8 --version
pip 20.3.3 from /home/eandersson/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)
As you can see here depending on the user and env variables set it may be installed in a different location.
sudo pip3.8 --version
pip 20.2.3 from /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)
I would also recommend that you use a virtualenv if you need specific versions libraries installed for your project.
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install pip --upgrade

python: pip fails to install matplotlib v.3.1.1 [duplicate]

On Ubuntu 10.04 by default Python 2.6 is installed, then I have installed Python 2.7. How can I use pip install to install packages for Python 2.7.
For example:
pip install beautifulsoup4
by default installs BeautifulSoup for Python 2.6
When I do:
import bs4
in Python 2.6 it works, but in Python 2.7 it says:
No module named bs4

Alternatively, since pip itself is written in python, you can just call it with the python version you want to install the package for:
python2.7 -m pip install foo

Use a version of pip installed against the Python instance you want to install new packages to.
In many distributions, there may be separate python2.6-pip and python2.7-pip packages, invoked with binary names such as pip-2.6 and pip-2.7. If pip is not packaged in your distribution for the desired target, you might look for a setuptools or easyinstall package, or use virtualenv (which will always include pip in a generated environment).
pip's website includes installation instructions, if you can't find anything within your distribution.

You can execute pip module for a specific python version using the corresponding python:
Python 2.6:
python2.6 -m pip install beautifulsoup4
Python 2.7
python2.7 -m pip install beautifulsoup4

In Windows, you can execute the pip module by mentioning the python version ( You need to ensure that the launcher is on your path )
py -2 -m pip install pyfora

You can use this syntax
python_version -m pip install your_package
For example. If you're running python3.5, you named it as "python3", and want to install numpy package
python3 -m pip install numpy

Have tried this on a Windows machine and it works
If you wanna install opencv for python version 3.7, heres how you do it!
py -3.7 -m pip install opencv-python

Alternatively, if you want to install specific version of the package with the specific version of python, this is the way
sudo python2.7 -m pip install pyudev=0.16
if the "=" doesnt work, use ==
x#ubuntuserv:~$ sudo python2.7 -m pip install pyudev=0.16
Invalid requirement: 'pyudev=0.16'
= is not a valid operator. Did you mean == ?
x#ubuntuserv:~$ sudo python2.7 -m pip install pyudev==0.16
works fine

If you have both 2.7 and 3.x versions of python installed, then just rename the python exe file of python 3.x version to something like - "python.exe" to "python3.exe". Now you can use pip for both versions individually. If you normally type "pip install " it will consider the 2.7 version by default. If you want to install it on the 3.x version you need to call the command as "python3 -m pip install ".

Python 2
sudo pip2 install johnbonjovi
Python 3
sudo pip3 install johnbonjovi

For Python 3
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4
For Python 2
sudo apt-get install python2-pip
sudo pip2 install beautifulsoup4
On Debian/Ubuntu, pip is the command to use when installing packages
for Python 2, while pip3 is the command to use when installing
packages for Python 3.

for python2 use:
py -2 -m pip install beautifulsoup4

I faced a similar problem with another package called Twisted. I wanted to install it for Python 2.7, but it only got installed for Python 2.6 (system's default version).
Making a simple change worked for me.
When adding Python 2.7's path to your $PATH variable, append it to the front like this: PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH, so that the system uses that version.
If you face more problems, you can follow this blog post which helped me - https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-2/wiki/installing-python-2.7-on-centos-6.3.-follow-this-sequence-exactly-for-centos-machine-only

As with any other python script, you may specify the python installation you'd like to run it with. You may put this in your shell profile to save the alias. The $1 refers to the first argument you pass to the script.
# PYTHON3 PIP INSTALL V2
alias pip_install3="python3 -m $(which pip) install $1"

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04, which comes with python 3.10.4.
Some packages do not have recent pip packages, so I needed install from an older pip. This sequence worked for me.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.9
sudo apt install python3.9-distutils
python3.9 -m pip install onnxruntime-gpu

Folder location: /usr/local/lib/python3.8
Package: python3.8 -m pip install <package_name>

I had Python 2.7 installed via chocolatey on Windows and found pip2.7.exe in C:\tools\python2\Scripts.
Using this executable instead of the pip command installed the correct module for me (requests for Python 2.7).

I think the best practice here is not to use the system python or install any system python package (no apt install). That is just the way to trouble.
Instead, build the required Python version from source, get it installed in /usr/local/... . Then use pip to install packages for that. It is really not that hard to build Python from source on Ubuntu.
sudo apt install build-essential
download the source from https://www.python.org/downloads/source/
unpack the file downloaded: tar xf <filename>
cd <directory> - change into the directory created.
./configure
make
sudo make install
Then check /usr/local/bin for a pip script tied to that version. Use that to pip install whatever you need. Also find the particular executable for the python version in that directory. You might have to shuffle things a bit if you get lots of versions.
Again, do not mess with system python.

Trouble with installing pip 8.1.1 from 7.1.2

I'm having an issue with upgrading pip from 7.1.2 to 8.1.1. At first I downloaded Python 3.4 and installed pip from there but then noticed Python 3.5 was there so I downloaded that. When trying to use pip to install selenium it says You are using pip version 7.1.2 however 8.1.1 is available. I do "pip install --upgrade pip" then get an error. See attached screenshot.What do I do? Btw I'm on windows 8.1.enter image description here

Ok. It's working if I run cmd as an admin then do
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

In Mac, I ran:
sudo python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Then, it worked.

Did you try python -m pip install --upgrade pip? if pip is being used, it cannot install itself.

This is a common question that requires few germane steps to pre-installing other modules in Python.
Depending on the version of your Python (Either the 2.X series or the 3.X series), and the operation system (Window, Ubuntu, etc ), you will need to do the following;
Open CMD (Short-Cut: Control+R button on the keyboard)
Make sure the current directory is the administrator on the hard-drive of the system and your internet connection is available.
i.e C:\Users\System_Name PC
Type in the command:
Pip install --upgrade pip
i.e C:\Users\System_Name PC > pip install --upgrade pip
and hit ENTER key to activate:
It will uninstall the previous version and install the latest version
Restart the system and continue the installation of each python module
e.g Pip install dateutil
Pip install numpy
Pip install matplotlib
Peradventure you wish to specify the version of the python module dependencies you want to install;
Pip install Django==1.90
It will install the specific version: otherwise if not specified, the latest version of the target module would be installed.

Control the pip version in virtualenv

How do I control the version of pip which is used in a freshly created venv?
By default, it uses a vendored pip distribution which may be out of date or unsuitable for whatever other reason. I want to be able to create a venv with a user-specified version of pip installed initially, as opposed to creating one and then upgrading the pip installation from within the env.

For me, I just upgraded pip/virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper on my machine (not inside the virtualenv). Subsequently created virtualenvs had the updated version.
deactivate
pip install --upgrade pip virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
mkvirtualenv ...

From reading the source of virtualenv, it looks like pip is installed from a source tarfile included with virtualenv. In virtualenv 1.10.1, it is pip-1.4.1.tar.gz in the site-packages/virtualenv_support directory (it gets setuptools from the same place). You could feasibly replace that archive to control the version; virtualenv.py, at least the version I have, doesn't care which version of pip is there:
if not no_pip:
install_sdist('Pip', 'pip-*.tar.gz', py_executable, search_dirs)
You could also pass the --no-pip option and then install the version you want from source.
In virtualenv 1.11, it looks for a wheel file (e.g. pip-*.whl) instead of a tar.gz, but other than that it acts the same way (thanks #wim for the update).

You cannot downgrade pip using pip, the solution is to install a specific version in your virtual environment:
virtualenv env -p python3.6 --no-pip
source env/bin/activate
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py pip==18.1
This will allow you to keep using --process-dependency-links that was removed in pip 19.

It's easy enough to replace the pip that gets installed in your virtual environment. Within your virtual environment active, simply execute the following command:
pip install pip==1.4.1

Since Python 3.9 the stdlib venv module has EnvBuilder.upgrade_dependencies. Unfortunately, it has two shortcomings:
Won't really help users to install a specific pip version, only the latest.
It still installs the vendored pip and setuptools versions first, and then uninstall them if they're outdated, which they almost always will be in practice.
It would be ideal to install the latest versions directly! The venv CLI provides a --without-pip argument that is useful here. You can use this to opt-out of the vendored pip, and then actually use the vendored pip wheel to install your desired pip version instead (along with any other packages you might want in a freshly created virtual environment).
It's best to put it into a function - this goes into your shell profile or rc file:
function ve() {
local py="python3"
if [ ! -d ./.venv ]; then
echo "creating venv..."
if ! $py -m venv .venv --prompt=$(basename $PWD) --without-pip; then
echo "ERROR: Problem creating venv" >&2
return 1
else
local whl=$($py -c "import pathlib, ensurepip; [whl] = pathlib.Path(ensurepip.__path__[0]).glob('_bundled/pip*.whl'); print(whl)")
echo "boostrapping pip using $whl"
.venv/bin/python $whl/pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
source .venv/bin/activate
fi
else
source .venv/bin/activate
fi
}
As written, this function just pulls latest pip, setuptools, and wheel from index. To force specific versions you can just change this line of the shell script:
.venv/bin/python $whl/pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
Into this, for example:
.venv/bin/python $whl/pip install pip==19.3.1
For Python 2.7 users, you may do a similar trick because virtualenv provides similar command-line options in --no-pip, --no-setuptools, and --no-wheel, and there is still a vendored pip wheel available to bootstrap since Python 2.7.9. Pathlib will not be available, so you'll need to change the pathlib usage into os.path + glob.

While creating virtual environment using venv module, use optional argument --upgrade-deps.
That will upgrade pip + setuptools to the latest on PyPI.
Example : python3 -m venv --upgrade-deps .venv
Reference link :
venv module documentation
It indicates "Changed in version 3.9: Add --upgrade-deps option to upgrade pip + setuptools to the latest on PyPI"
Note : I tried this using Python 3.10.4

Solved the same issue today on my windows machine with python 3.10.2 installed.
download required pip wheel from history to path\to\python\lib\ensurepip\bundled
in path\to\python\lib\ensurepip\__init__.py change _PIP_VERSION = your version
create environment as usual python -m venv path\to\env

I had issues with pip 22.3.1, so I wanted to downgrade it to 22.3, while pip 22.3.1 produces errors and not letting me downgrade as the other solutions suggest.
I solved the issue by creating a new venv with the specific pip version, as follows:
virtualenv env -p python3.10 --pip 22.3

TLDR
python -m pip install --upgrade pip==<target version number>
Example
Downgrading from pip 20.3 to pip 19.3 from within a virtual environment.
(env) $ pip --version
pip 20.3.1
(env) $ python -m pip install --upgrade pip==19.3 # downgrading
Collecting pip==19.3
Using cached pip-19.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4 MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
Attempting uninstall: pip
Found existing installation: pip 20.3.1
Uninstalling pip-20.3.1:
Successfully uninstalled pip-20.3.1
Successfully installed pip-19.3
(env) $pip --version trex#Tobiahs-MacBook-Pro
pip 19.3

Install a module using pip for specific python version

On Ubuntu 10.04 by default Python 2.6 is installed, then I have installed Python 2.7. How can I use pip install to install packages for Python 2.7.
For example:
pip install beautifulsoup4
by default installs BeautifulSoup for Python 2.6
When I do:
import bs4
in Python 2.6 it works, but in Python 2.7 it says:
No module named bs4

Alternatively, since pip itself is written in python, you can just call it with the python version you want to install the package for:
python2.7 -m pip install foo

Use a version of pip installed against the Python instance you want to install new packages to.
In many distributions, there may be separate python2.6-pip and python2.7-pip packages, invoked with binary names such as pip-2.6 and pip-2.7. If pip is not packaged in your distribution for the desired target, you might look for a setuptools or easyinstall package, or use virtualenv (which will always include pip in a generated environment).
pip's website includes installation instructions, if you can't find anything within your distribution.

You can execute pip module for a specific python version using the corresponding python:
Python 2.6:
python2.6 -m pip install beautifulsoup4
Python 2.7
python2.7 -m pip install beautifulsoup4

In Windows, you can execute the pip module by mentioning the python version ( You need to ensure that the launcher is on your path )
py -2 -m pip install pyfora

You can use this syntax
python_version -m pip install your_package
For example. If you're running python3.5, you named it as "python3", and want to install numpy package
python3 -m pip install numpy

Have tried this on a Windows machine and it works
If you wanna install opencv for python version 3.7, heres how you do it!
py -3.7 -m pip install opencv-python

Alternatively, if you want to install specific version of the package with the specific version of python, this is the way
sudo python2.7 -m pip install pyudev=0.16
if the "=" doesnt work, use ==
x#ubuntuserv:~$ sudo python2.7 -m pip install pyudev=0.16
Invalid requirement: 'pyudev=0.16'
= is not a valid operator. Did you mean == ?
x#ubuntuserv:~$ sudo python2.7 -m pip install pyudev==0.16
works fine

If you have both 2.7 and 3.x versions of python installed, then just rename the python exe file of python 3.x version to something like - "python.exe" to "python3.exe". Now you can use pip for both versions individually. If you normally type "pip install " it will consider the 2.7 version by default. If you want to install it on the 3.x version you need to call the command as "python3 -m pip install ".

Python 2
sudo pip2 install johnbonjovi
Python 3
sudo pip3 install johnbonjovi

For Python 3
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4
For Python 2
sudo apt-get install python2-pip
sudo pip2 install beautifulsoup4
On Debian/Ubuntu, pip is the command to use when installing packages
for Python 2, while pip3 is the command to use when installing
packages for Python 3.

for python2 use:
py -2 -m pip install beautifulsoup4

I faced a similar problem with another package called Twisted. I wanted to install it for Python 2.7, but it only got installed for Python 2.6 (system's default version).
Making a simple change worked for me.
When adding Python 2.7's path to your $PATH variable, append it to the front like this: PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH, so that the system uses that version.
If you face more problems, you can follow this blog post which helped me - https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-2/wiki/installing-python-2.7-on-centos-6.3.-follow-this-sequence-exactly-for-centos-machine-only

As with any other python script, you may specify the python installation you'd like to run it with. You may put this in your shell profile to save the alias. The $1 refers to the first argument you pass to the script.
# PYTHON3 PIP INSTALL V2
alias pip_install3="python3 -m $(which pip) install $1"

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04, which comes with python 3.10.4.
Some packages do not have recent pip packages, so I needed install from an older pip. This sequence worked for me.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.9
sudo apt install python3.9-distutils
python3.9 -m pip install onnxruntime-gpu

Folder location: /usr/local/lib/python3.8
Package: python3.8 -m pip install <package_name>

I had Python 2.7 installed via chocolatey on Windows and found pip2.7.exe in C:\tools\python2\Scripts.
Using this executable instead of the pip command installed the correct module for me (requests for Python 2.7).

I think the best practice here is not to use the system python or install any system python package (no apt install). That is just the way to trouble.
Instead, build the required Python version from source, get it installed in /usr/local/... . Then use pip to install packages for that. It is really not that hard to build Python from source on Ubuntu.
sudo apt install build-essential
download the source from https://www.python.org/downloads/source/
unpack the file downloaded: tar xf <filename>
cd <directory> - change into the directory created.
./configure
make
sudo make install
Then check /usr/local/bin for a pip script tied to that version. Use that to pip install whatever you need. Also find the particular executable for the python version in that directory. You might have to shuffle things a bit if you get lots of versions.
Again, do not mess with system python.