Install pip3 for Python 3 on Ubuntu

The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.

1. Install pip3 for Python 3

On Ubuntu 17.10, pip3 is not installed by default. Python 3.6.3 is installed. So let’s install pip3 for Python 3 first.

You can check the version of Python 3 that is installed on your Ubuntu operating system with the following command:

python3 --version

Before you try to install anything new on Ubuntu operating system, run the following command to update the package repository cache of Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update

To install pip3 for Python3 on Ubuntu, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Now press y and then press Enter to continue. It should take a while to download and install all these new packages depending on your internet connection.

Once the installation is complete, you can check the version of pip3 for Python 3 using the following command:

pip3 --version

You can see that, the version of pip3. According to the official website of pip3, this is the latest version as of this writing.

2. Updating pip3 for Python 3

Open a terminal and run the following command to update pip3 for Python 3:

pip3 install -U pip

As you can see pip3 for Python 3 has been updated.

Now to check the version of pip3 for Python 3, run the following command:

pip3 --version

The command said pip3 was installed in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages directory.

References

[1] Yongqiang Cheng, https://yongqiang.blog.csdn.net/
[2] Install PIP on Ubuntu 17.10, https://linuxhint.com/install-pip-on-ubuntu17/