How to Solve Pip Command Not Found Error in Bash

1. Installation of pip in Bash
2. Solve pip command not found Error in Bash

The pip is a package management system written in Python used to install and manage software packages. When you download a package using the pip tool, you may sometimes get a command not found error.

This article explains how to install pip and solve this error in Bash.

Installation of pip in Bash

The pip tool can be installed on Linux distributions with the following commands. These commands will also install dependencies required for building modules.

Install pip3 tool for Arch Linux.

sudo pacman -S python-pip

Install pip3 tool for Ubuntu and Debian.

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Install pip3 tool for Fedora.

sudo yum install python3-pip

Besides these, the pip3 tool can be installed manually. Download the file from the official repository with curl and save it as get-pip.py.

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

Run the file with the python3 command. You can then delete the file.

python3 get-pip.py
rm get-pip.py

You can successfully install the pip3 tool by choosing the one that suits you best from these options. Now you can download the packages you want using the pip3 install package command.

Solve pip command not found Error in Bash

You may be using the wrong version if you get a pip: command not found error while downloading a package. To solve the problem, check the version of the pip tool you have installed first.

pip --version
pip3 --version

Usually, pip is used with Python 2.x and pip3 with Python 3.x. If you want to install Python 3.x packages, try typing pip3 instead of pip.

pip3 install package

If you do not want to type pip3 every time, you can add an alias to the .bashrc file.

alias pip="pip3"

Alternatively, you can use the pip with the python3 command.

python3 -m pip install package