Error Can't Install Pip or Python
When Typing This Following Command: Python I Am Getting the Following Message in Ubuntu 17.10: the Program 'Python' Can Be Found in the Following Packages: *...
When typing this following command:
python
I am getting the following message in Ubuntu 17.10:
The program 'python' can be found in the following packages:
* python-minimal
* python3
And when typing these command python3 -V it tells me that it is python3.6.3?
Why is that happening?
When I type:
sudo apt install python3-pip
I get this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3-pip is already the newest version (9.0.1-2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
But pip seems not to be installed, when I try:
sudo pip install BeautifulSoup4
sudo: pip: command not found
1 Answer
That behavior is perfectly normal for Ubuntu 17.10 as it contains no python 2.7 by default anymore
Python 2 is no longer installed by default. Python 3 has been updated to 3.6.
(from Release Notes)
The right line to use is:
python3
Beside that you can install pip for python 3.6 with the following command
sudo apt install python3-pip
This will install pip for python 3 which you can call with pip3 <command> or pip <command> (which does not seem to work in your case no clue why).
And for python 2.7 including its pip if you so wish with the following command:
sudo apt install python2.7 python-pip
To call pip for python 2 you need to use pip2 <command>.
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