Installation of PIP the Python packaging tool on RHEL 7 Linux

In order to install of PIP the Python packaging tool on RHEL 7 Linux we first need to install its only pre-requisite and that is setuptools package otherwise we will get a following error message:

Downloading/unpacking pip
  Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pip
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for pip
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

From this reason we first install setuptools:

[root@rhel7 ~]# wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-7.0.tar.gz --no-check-certificate
[root@rhel7 ~]# tar xzf setuptools-7.0.tar.gz
[root@rhel7 ~]# cd setuptools-7.0
[root@rhel7 ~]# python setup.py install
...
Installed /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-7.0-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools==7.0
Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==7.0

Once setuptools package is installed we can now proceed with the actual PIP installation. Here we assume that python is already installed on your Redhat 7 Linux system.

[root@rhel7 ~]# wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
[root@rhel7 ~]# python get-pip.py
Downloading/unpacking pip
  Downloading pip-1.5.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.0MB): 1.0MB downloaded
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip
Cleaning up...

All done. Let’s confirm our actions by checking PIP version:

[root@rhel7 ~]# pip --version
pip 1.5.6 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

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