Linux Administration Cookbook

System-installed and third-party installed versions of Pip

In our Ubuntu box, we installed pip by using the system package manager (apt) only to then use Pip to upgrade itself.

This means that apt thinks the package looks like this:

$ apt list python3-pip -aListing... Donepython3-pip/bionic-updates,now 9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1 all [installed]

Our local session thinks that pip looks like this:

$ pip3 --versionpip 18.1 from /home/vagrant/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)

This is a problem, as future packages could rely on Pip 9 and expect it to be installed correctly on the box, despite the different versions.

In this case, what we've actually done is use the system-installed version of Pip to install and upgraded the version locally; ...