How to Install and Use PIP Python Package Manager on Rocky Linux

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language used by developers around the world. PIP is a package manager for Python used for installing and managing additional packages. PIP allows you to manage full lists of packages and their corresponding version numbers. PIP provides a way to install user-defined projects locally with the use of a setup.py file.

In this post, we will explain how to install and use PIP on Rocky Linux. This procedure is compatible with Rocky Linux 8 and Rocky Linux 9.

In This Article

• Install PIP on Rocky Linux 8
• How to Update PIP
• How to Use PIP

Step 1 – Install PIP on Rocky Linux

Before installing PIP, you will need to install Python on your system. You can install it by running the following command:

dnf install python39 -y

Once Python is installed, you can verify the Python version using the following command:

python3.9 --version

You should get the following output:

Python 3.9.2

Next, install PIP using the following command:

dnf install python3.9-pip

Once PIP is installed, verify the installed version of PIP using the following command:

pip3 --version

You should see the following output:

pip 20.2.4 from /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)

Step 2 – How to Update PIP

It is recommended to update PIP to the latest version. You can update it using the following command:

pip3 install --upgrade pip

You should see the following output:

Collecting pip
  Downloading pip-21.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (1.7 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.7 MB 1.9 MB/s 
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-21.3.1

You can now verify the PIP version using the following command:

pip3 --version

You should see the following output:

pip 21.3.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)

Step 3 – How to Use PIP

You can list all important options available with PIP using the following command:

pip3 --help

You should see the following output:

Usage:   
  pip3  [options]

Commands:
  install                     Install packages.
  download                    Download packages.
  uninstall                   Uninstall packages.
  freeze                      Output installed packages in requirements format.
  list                        List installed packages.
  show                        Show information about installed packages.
  check                       Verify installed packages have compatible dependencies.
  config                      Manage local and global configuration.
  search                      Search PyPI for packages.
  cache                       Inspect and manage pip's wheel cache.
  wheel                       Build wheels from your requirements.
  hash                        Compute hashes of package archives.
  completion                  A helper command used for command completion.
  debug                       Show information useful for debugging.
  help                        Show help for commands.

To install a specific package, run the following command:

pip3 install wheel

To get detailed information about a package, run the following command:

pip3 show wheel

You will get the following output:

Name: wheel
Version: 0.37.0
Summary: A built-package format for Python
Home-page: https://github.com/pypa/wheel
Author: Daniel Holth
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages
Requires: 
Required-by: 

To list all installed packages, run the following command:

pip3 list

You should see the following output:

Package    Version
---------- -------
pip        21.3.1
setuptools 50.3.2
wheel      0.37.0

To list all outdated packages, run the following command:

pip3 list --outdated

You should see the following output:

Package    Version Latest Type
---------- ------- ------ -----
setuptools 50.3.2  58.5.3 wheel

To uninstall a specific package, run the following command:

pip3 uninstall wheel

Conclusion

In the above post, you learned how to install and use PIP on Rocky Linux 8. You also learned how to manage Python packages with PIP. You can now easily use PIP to manage the Python dependencies. Get started with VPS hosting from Atlantic.Net!