On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > 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
In Debian distros, a customized version of ensurepip is part of python3-venv [1]. But it's only for use in virtual environments; it doesn't install the upstream version of pip as the system pip. Even with the customized python3-pip package, it's still recommended to use the system package manager (apt or dpkg) for the system Python. I only use pip in local builds and virtual environments, as suggested, so I can't provide concrete cases in which using it for the system site-packages actually breaks something due to a version mismatch. Of course you can remove a package and repair the system if it causes a conflict, but it's worth a warning at least. [1]: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/python3-venv -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
