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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