Install PIP3 or PIP2 on RHEL / CentOS 8

In this short topic, I’ll show how to install PIP on RHEL or CentOS 8 server.

Table of Contents

  1. Install PIP
  2. Search and Install Package
  3. Uninstall Package and PIP

Step 1 : Install PIP

We can install PIP based on Python version:

# python 3
sudo dnf install python3-pip

# python 2
sudo dnf install python2-pip

Check the version to confirm:

# python 3
pip3 --version

# python 2
pip2 --version

Step 2 : Search and Install Package

By this way, we can search for any package

# python 3
pip3 search PACKAGE/KEYWORD

# python 2
pip2 search PACKAGE/KEYWORD

And we can easily install package using PIP like:

# python 3
pip3 install PACKAGE_NAME

# python 2
pip2 install PACKAGE_NAME

Step 3 : Uninstall Package and PIP

To uninstall a package, just run this command:

# python 3
pip3 uninstall PACKAGE_NAME

# python 2
pip2 uninstall PACKAGE_NAME

To remove PIP from the server, we need to run the following command:

# python 3
sudo dnf remove python3-pip

# python 2
sudo dnf remove python2-pip

The article is over. Thanks for reading.


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Md Obydullah is a software engineer and full stack developer specialist at Laravel, Django, Vue.js, Node.js, Android, Linux Server, and Ethichal Hacking.