How to install Pip on CentOS 7? (In 4 Easy Steps)

What is Pip?

Pip is a package management system to install and manage software packages written in Python. As Pip is not installed on CentOS 7 by default, you have to install it manually. Python language follows a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability which makes it one of the easiest programming languages to learn. 

Python is an  open source and runs on various platforms such as Linux/UNIX distributions (CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X.

You can install python modules using yum or pip. When you want to install python modules globally, you can use yum as they are tested to work properly on CentOS 7. Use pip to install python packages if there is no rpm package for the python module.

It is always recommended to use pip inside a virtual environment only. This permits you to install Python modules in an isolated location for a specific project instead of being installed globally. Therefore, your other Python projects won’t be affected. 

Learn on how to install Pip on WIndows

Prerequisites

• A working CentOS 7 server.
• Logged in as a root user or 
• Logged in as a user with sudo privileges. 

Installing pip on CentOS 7

Follow the given steps to install python pip on CentOS 7:

1. Add the EPEL Repository

To install pip you have to enable the EPEL repository as it is not available in CentOS 7 core repositories

yum install epel-release

2. Install Pip

Before installing pip you have to update your packages. 

yum -y update

After that begin with the process of python-pip installation 

yum -y install python-pip

3. Verify Pip installation

After successful installation, it is important to check if the pip is installed correctly or not. It can be done by running a command which will print the pip version:

pip –version

The output may vary, but it should appear something like this:-

pip 8.1.2 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

4. Install Development tools

You can install development tools to build python modules using following 

Development tools are required for building Python modules, you can install them with:

yum install python-devel

yum groupinstall ‘development tools’

List of helpful commands:-

To install a package. Fo example, if you want to install pygraphy

pip install pygraphy

To uninstall a package run:

pip uninstall pygraphy

To search packages from PyPI:

pip search “pygraphy”

List installed packages:

pip list

To list outdated packages:

pip list –outdated

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