Linux Administration Cookbook

Getting ready

In this section, we will continue to use our Ubuntu VM.

Install Pip and RubyGems on your Ubuntu machine (Python will already be installed, but it's a separate package for Pip in this instance), as follows:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y$ sudo apt install libgmp3-dev make gcc ruby ruby-dev python3-setuptools -y

Python2 and Python3 are both widely used, although these days, you really shouldn't be writing anything new in Python2 (which will be going out of support in 2020).

We now want to install pip, using the easy_install3 script:

$ sudo python3 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/easy_install.py pip

There is a way to install python3-pip using apt, but this version will be frequently out of date, and the whole point of ...