ImportError: No module named pip

Question

OS: Mac OS X 10.7.5 Python Ver: 2.7.5

I have installed setuptools 1.0 with ez_setup.py from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools Then I download pip.1.4.1 pkg fr

Answer 1

With macOS 10.15 and Homebrew 2.1.6 I was getting this error with Python 3.7. I just needed to run:

python3 -m ensurepip

Now python3 -m pip works for me.

Answer 2

On some kind of linux like ubuntu, first, do apt-get update and then try installing the python-pip package. without apt-get update, you might get error such as

E: Unable to locate package python-pip

1.Update :

sudo apt-get update

2.Install the pip package

For python2

sudo apt-get install python-pip

or

For python3

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

And done!

Answer 3

I had the same problem. My solution:

For Python 3

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

For Python 2

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Answer 4

I solved a similar error on Linux by setting PYTHONPATH to the site-packages location. This was after running python get-pip.py --prefix /home/chet/pip.

[chet@rhel1 ~]$ ~/pip/bin/pip -V
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/chet/pip/bin/pip", line 7, in <module>
    from pip import main
ImportError: No module named pip

[chet@rhel1 ~]$ export PYTHONPATH=/home/chet/pip/lib/python2.6/site-packages

[chet@rhel1 ~]$ ~/pip/bin/pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /home/chet/pip/lib/python2.6/site-packages (python 2.6)

Answer 5

I had a similar problem with virtualenv that had python3.8 while installing dependencies from requirements.txt file. I managed to get it to work by activating the virtualenv and then running the command python -m pip install -r requirements.txt and it worked.

Answer 6

I just needed to replace pip with pip3 so I ended up running the command as follows: pip3 install matplotlib