Upgrading a package using pip is done by use of the argument -upgrade as we did when upgrading pip to the latest version.Īs much fun can Installing new packages be, we sadly sometimes have to uninstall packages too, we can uninstall packages using the command: It is also possible to specify an exact or minimum package version using the command syntax below. Installing packages using pip is easy, following is the command syntax that is used to install packages using pip. Now that we have the latest version of pip installed, let's take a look at some commands that we can use to manage packages. However the pip version included on Debian apt-get can be outdated, we can upgrade pip to the latest version by using the command below. Now we can install Pip using the following command:

# sudo apt-get install python-dev build-essential

But before we can install pip, we have to install necessary packages to run pip. Python pip package is available on Debian apt-get package repository. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install Pip on Debian 8 and how to use Pip to install and manage packages. PyPa also recommends the use of Pip for installing and managing packages. Pip (Pip installs packages) is a package management tool used to install and manage programs written in Python.

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