How to Install Pip on Fedora 21

Pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages.

Python is a programming language. It is quite popular and has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability. It is widely considered to be a very easy programming language to learn and master because of its 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.

• These instructions are intended specifically for installing Pip, a tool for installing and managing Python packages.
• I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 21 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

There are two options for installing Pip. Use either Option #1 or Option #2 below.

First, clean-up yum:

yum clean all

As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:

yum -y update

Then let’s install python-pip and any required packages:

yum -y install python-pip

And skip to Step #3.

We can also use curl and python to download and install Pip.

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

python get-pip.py

View a list of helpful commands:

pip --help

Check the version of Pip that is installed:

pip -V

Which should yield something similar to:

pip 1.5.6 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

or

pip 6.0.8 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)