If you have $HOME/.local/bin on your PATH then you'll always pick up user pip installed programs. This will install the latest version in $HOME/.local/bin % ls -l.

If you want a newer version then you can install it in the user profile % pip install -upgrade -user pipġ00% |#| 1.4MB 615kB/s Odd behaviour may result, including installing of an older version than you've previously installed! The OS package system believes it controls the files, and you've overridden them. So sudo pip install -upgrade pip is a bad thing. Never upgrade the OS provided version of tools outside of the package management system, because if there's a new package released it will overwrite your changes. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install -upgrade pip' command. WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 20.0.2 is available. Moving to /home/abc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/įrom /home/abc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/~ipĮRROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-20.0.2.dist-info/top_level.txt'Ĭonsider using the `-user` option or check the permissions. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. How can I resolve this? Also, what is the reason sudo is not suggested in order to upgrade pip? $python -m pip install -upgrade pipĭEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020.

My question is if I don't give sudo I get permission errors. I have gone through some notes that it is not a good idea to do pip upgrade using sudo command.

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