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I'm trying to install pip (python installer) to my username since I don't have root privileges and can't just sudo apt-get install python-pip.

So what I've done is just easy_install --user pip. That installs it to .local/bin apparently but then when I call it like so:

pip install --user astropy

It says that pip is not currently installed.

I have limited knowledge of linux and of the system I'm using (NX connection to a machine at my university). I know I should be able to do this!

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    If easy_install is not available, you can install pip to local with wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py && python get-pip.py --user – JorgeGT Nov 02 '14 at 18:51
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    Here is the up-to-date version of the above method: wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && python get-pip.py --user – qed Nov 22 '16 at 11:49
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    Get this error: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip' – NonalcoholicBeer Jan 25 '17 at 15:34
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    @ablmf - did you add the --user when running python get-pip.py --user ? – m81 Jan 26 '17 at 18:26
  • @qed 's comment should be the accepted answer – Cédric Van Rompay Jul 24 '17 at 11:32
  • If you have no wget: curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py – blueFast Apr 04 '18 at 06:33
  • What if I have activated a virtual environment (venv or virtualenv) and then use pip? Shouldn't it then install to the folder that is associated by venv/virtualenv with the active (activated) environment and NOT to ~/.local/bin/ ? I thought the idea is that you have multiple environments comparable to the Ruby Version Manager and Gemsets where you can both install packages to the global namespace of the RVM or to specific Gemsets such that it allows you for example to make use of multiple version combinations of packages etc. in the gemsets... When Python, despite an active... – von spotz Feb 10 '23 at 12:56
  • ... virtual environment for pip to install packages to, installs everything into ~/.local/bin then this is very comparable to the @global namespace of the ruby version manager and hence it breaks any intention to have separate sets of plugins and separate sets of versions maybe of those sets. Asked differently: How do I force pip to only install into the activated virtual environment folder and not into ~/.local/bin ? Thanks – von spotz Feb 10 '23 at 13:00

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I hope I'm right and the problem is with your PATH, try this

You can add this to your ~/.bashrc file:

PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin

If you don't know how, you can just execute this line in a Terminal:

echo "PATH=\$PATH:~/.local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

You can also check what's in your PATH by typing in the Terminal

echo $PATH
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This may be related. How to install python from source on a remote machine without root access.

Installing Python 3.6 (works with any version per say)

  1. Get the official download link from python.org website (example)

  2. Download the python source release and get the folder readied for installation from source.

    wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.9/Python-3.6.9.tgz
tar zxfv Python-3.6.9.tgz
find ~/inflated_location/Python-3.6.9/Python -type d | xargs chmod 0755
cd Python-3.6.9

  3. Install from source

    ./configure --prefix=~/inflated_location/Python-3.6.9/Python
make
make install

  4. Export the path variable

    nano ~/.bashrc
export PATH=~/inflated_folder/python/Python-3.6.9/:$PATH
source ~/.bashrc

Now you have python3.6 installed for logged in user and can be invoked now using command python

Installing py packages

The easiest way that I have followed is

python -m pip install <package-name> --user

Reference

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