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pythonpipubuntu-12.10

I screwed up the system version of Python Pip on Ubuntu 12.10


I wanted to update pip on my main install of Python, specifically to get the list command. Which also includes the list- updates capability.

So I ran:

sudo pip install --upgrade pip

All looked good on the install but then I went to run pip and got this: (end of install included if it helps)

Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing pip-2.7 script to /usr/local/bin
Successfully installed pip
Cleaning up...
tom@tom-sam:~$ pip list -o
bash: /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory
tom@tom-sam:~$ pip
bash: /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory

Somewhat obviously I'm hosed since this is my system install of python.. I read a few answers here but have not been able to determine the easiest fix.


Solution

  • I had the same message on linux.

    /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory
    

    but then checked which pip was being called.

    $ which pip
    /usr/local/bin/pip 
    

    On my debian wheezy machine I fixed it doing following...

    /usr/local/bin/pip uninstall pip  
    apt-get remove python-pip  
    apt-get install python-pip  
    

    ====================================
    This was due to mixup installing with apt-get and updating with pip install -U pip.

    These also installed libraries at 2 different places which caused problems for me.

    /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages  
    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages