I'm trying to install pip on a Linux Mint box. The maintainers of Mint
(or possibly their upstream distro, Ubuntu) decided in their infinite
wisdom to remove the ensurepip package, so
python3 -m ensurepip
fails ("No module named ensurepip"). Okay, let's do this the hard way:
sudo apt install python3-pip
Yay, that worked! So then I try using it:
python3 -m pip install blahblahblah
and after downloading the entire package, it crashes:
ImportError: No module named 'setuptools'
because *of course* why would you treat setuptools as a dependency of
pip, just because it happens to be a dependency of pip? That would be too
sensible.
sudo apt install python3-setuptools
fixed the issue. But now I want to go out and kick puppies.
/rant
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