“E: Unable to locate package python-pip” on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I am trying to install virtualenv on Ubuntu.

First it said command \'pip\' not found, so I typed

sudo apt install python-pip


        

Answer 1

You might have python 3 pip installed already. Instead of pip install you can use pip3 install.

Answer 2

Try following command sequence on Ubuntu terminal:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pip

Answer 3

ls /bin/python*

Identify the highest version of python listed. If the highest version is something like python2.7 then install python2-pip If its something like python3.8 then install python3-pip

Example for python3.8:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Answer 4

Try the following commands in terminal, this will work better:

apt-get install curl

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

python get-pip.py