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pip, easy_install commands not working in Ubuntu. Python 2.7 and 3.4 are installed

I'm fairly new to python. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and have both python 2.7.6 and python 3.4.0 installed. I was trying to install BeautifulSoup but couldn't because I get an error saying 

The program 'pip' is currently not installed.

I found that it comes bundles with python 3.4. I tried to install pip using sudo easy_install pip as mentioned in another question on stackoverflow. But this gives an error sudo: easy_install: command not found.

What is the problem?

Solution

  • pip appears to have turned into python -m pip (in your case, python3 -m pip, as Ubuntu's keeping the 2.x line available as python) in Python 3.4.

    easy_install for Python 2.7 comes as part of the python-setuptools package. Once installed, running easy_install pip would install pip for your Python 2.7 installation's use.