How do I update pip itself from inside my virtual environment

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I m able to update pip-managed packages  but how do I update pip itself  According to pip --version  I currently have pip 1 1 installed in my virtualenv and I want to update to the latest version    What s the command for that  Do I need to use distribute or is there a native pip or virtualenv command  I ve already tried pip update and pip update pip with no success

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I was in a similar situation and wanted to update urllib3 package  What worked for me was   pip3 install --upgrade --force-reinstall --ignore-installed urllib3  1 25 3

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Single Line Python Program The best way I have found is to write a single line program that downloads and runs the official get-pip script   See below for the code   The official docs recommend using curl to download the get-pip script  but since I work on windows and don t have curl installed I prefer using python itself to download and run the script     Here is the single line program that can be run via the command line using Python 3   python -c  import urllib request  exec urllib request urlopen  https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   read       This line gets the official  get-pip py  script as per the installation notes and executes the script with the  exec  command     For Python2 you would replace  urllib request  with  urllib2    python -c  import urllib2  exec urllib2 urlopen  https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   read       Precautions It s worth noting that running any python script blindly is inherently dangerous   For this reason  the official instructions recommend downloading the script and inspecting it before running     That said  many people don t actually inspect the code and just run it   This one-line program makes that easier

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I tried all of these solutions mentioned above under Debian Jessie  They don t work  because it just takes the latest version compile by the debian package manager which is 1 5 6 which equates to version 6 0 x  Some packages that use pip as prerequisites will not work as a results  such as spaCy  which needs the option --no-cache-dir to function correctly     So the actual best way to solve these problems is to run get-pip py downloaded using wget  from the website or using curl as follows     wget https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py -O   get-pip py  python   get-pip py  python3   get-pip py   This will install the current version which at the time of writing this solution is 9 0 1 which is way beyond what Debian provides      pip --version  pip 9 0 1 from  home myhomedir myvirtualenvdir lib python2 7 dist-packages  python 2 7     pip3 --version  pip 9 0 1 from  home myhomedir myvirtualenvdir lib python3 4 site-packages  python 3 4

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I had installed Python in C  Python Python36 so I went to the Windows command prompt and typed  cd C  Python Python36 to get to the right directory  Then entered the  python -m install --upgrade pip  all good

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for windows   go to command prompt and use this command python -m pip install    upgrade pip Dont forget to restart the editor to avoid any error you can check the version of the pip by pip --version if you want to install any particular version of pip   for example version 18 1 then use this command  python -m pip install pip  18 1

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In case you are using venv any update to pip install will result in upgrading the system pip instead of the venv pip  You need to upgrade the pip bootstrapping packages as well      python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

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In my case my pip version was broken so the update by itself would not work   Fix    inside virtualenv  easy install -U pip

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Upgrading pip using  pip install --upgrade pip  does not always work because of the dreaded cert issue  There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate   SSL  TLSV1 ALERT PROTOCOL VERSION  tlsv1 alert protocol version  I like to use the one line command for virtual envs   curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   python -   Or if you want to install it box wide you will need   curl https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   sudo python -   you can give curl a -s flag if you want to silence the output when running in an automation script

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To get this to work for me I had to drill down in the Python directory using the Python command prompt  on WIN10 from VS CODE   In my case it was in my  AppData Local Programs Python python35-32  directory  From there now I ran the command     python -m pip install --upgrade pip   This worked and I m good to go

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Very Simple  Just download pip from https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   Save the file in some forlder or dekstop  I saved the file in my D drive Then from your command prompt navigate to the folder where you have downloaded pip  Then type there  python -get-pip py

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I had a similar problem on a raspberry pi   The problem was that http requires SSL and so I needed to force it to use https to get around this requirement   sudo pip install --upgrade pip --index-url https   pypi python org simple   or   sudo pip-3 2 --upgrade pip --index-url https   pypi python org simple

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Open Command Prompt with Administrator Permissions  and repeat the command   python -m pip install --upgrade pip

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pip version 10 has an issue  It will manifest as the error   ubuntu mymachine-   mydir  sudo pip install --upgrade pip Traceback  most recent call last     File   usr bin pip   line 9  in  lt module gt      from pip import main ImportError  cannot import name main   The solution is to be in the venv you want to upgrade and then run   sudo myvenv bin pip install --upgrade pip   rather than just  sudo pip install --upgrade pip

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On my lap-top with Windows 7 the right way to install latest version of pip is   python exe -m pip install --upgrade pip

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pip is just a PyPI package like any other  you could use it to upgrade itself the same way you would upgrade any package   pip install --upgrade pip   On Windows the recommended command is   python -m pip install --upgrade pip

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The more safe method is to run pip though a python module   python -m pip install -U pip   On windows there seem to be a problem with binaries that try to replace themselves  this method works around that limitation

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In my case this worked from the terminal command line in Debian Stable  python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

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