Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Installing the latest version

This section applies to the case in which you need to install pip or upgrade it:

1. First, remove the previous version if there is one:

$ sudo apt remove python-pip

We do this because the Ubuntu repository may not have the latest version of pip. In the next step, you will access the original source to get all of the updates.

2. Download the installation script and execute it:

$ sudo apt update$ curl "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"$ sudo python get-pip.py

3. Check which version is installed:

$ pip --version    pip 19.3.1 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip (python 2.7)

If it was already present in your system, you can easily upgrade using pip itself:

$ sudo pip install --upgrade pip ...