Now you can run your program in the virtual environment. To install pip for Python 2 on Ubuntu 20.04, you will have to use the get-pip script. If the program has requirements.txt, you can install them in one command: pip install -r requirements.txt Uninstall package with pip: pip uninstall $package Show info about installed package: pip show $package List installed packages and their version: pip list

Install package with pip: pip install $packageĮxample installs: pip install beautifulsoup4 Search pip for package: pip search $package Make a virtual environment: virtualenv -p python2 venvĮnter virtual environment (Always do this before running the program, and do this in its directory): source venv/bin/activate The most popular Python package manager, pip, used to be included in a typical Python install, but lately, its been excluded. Make a directory for your program if you haven’t already and change to it: mkdir $program_dir Installation Step 1 - Update system sudo apt-get update Step 2 - Install pip3 sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip Step 3 - Verification pip3 -version. Open Terminal on or SSH to an Ubuntu host to start. We recommend you specify the version of python or pip (python3 program.py instead of python program.py). python2 is default on Ubuntu 16.04, python3 is default on 18.04.

You can install python packages with pip and make virtual environments to install different versions of them in different directories.

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