How to Install Pip on CentOS 7

Pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages. Python is a programming language that has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability. It is widely considered to be a very easy programming language to master because of that focus on readability. Python is open source, and will run a multitude of platforms including, but not limited to: Various Linux/UNIX distributions (CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X

 

Install Pip with Yum

Add the EPEL Repository

The EPEL repository is an additional package repository that provides easy access to install packages for commonly used software. The ‘EPEL’ part is an abbreviation that stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. 

 yum install epel-release

or

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

yum install ./epel-release-latest-*.noarch.rpm

yum -y update

yum -y install python-pip

 pip install --upgrade pip