I'm trying to upgrade my pip on Ubuntu 16.04. I appear to have buggered things up pretty well. (Details follow) Any suggestions on how to undo this and get everything back to proper operation?
Based on the information that I found at: <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3776>, I did the following: user@host$ pip --version pip 9.0.1 from /home/user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7) user@host$ pip install --upgrade pip Collecting pip Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5f/25/e52d3f31441505a5f3af41213346e5b6c221c9e086a166f3703d2ddaf940/pip-18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.3MB 453kB/s Installing collected packages: pip Found existing installation: pip 9.0.1 Uninstalling pip-9.0.1: Successfully uninstalled pip-9.0.1 Rolling back uninstall of pip Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): [snip error traceback] mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip' You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 18.0 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. user@host$ pip --version SError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip' You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 18.0 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. user@host$ pip --version pip 9.0.1 from /home/user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7) user@host$ Sure enough, no change. Given the file permission error, I figured that I needed root privileges, so I tried again: user@host$ sudo pip install --upgrade pip [sudo] password for user: The directory '/home/user/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. The directory '/home/user/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. Collecting pip Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5f/25/e52d3f31441505a5f3af41213346e5b6c221c9e086a166f3703d2ddaf940/pip-18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.3MB 442kB/s Installing collected packages: pip Found existing installation: pip 9.0.1 Uninstalling pip-9.0.1: Successfully uninstalled pip-9.0.1 Successfully installed pip-18.0 user@host$ pip --version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module> from pip import main ImportError: cannot import name main user@host$ Well, even though it said "Successfully installed", it appears to not have done so. Trying again with sudo's -H option: user@host$ sudo -H pip install --upgrade pip Requirement already up-to-date: pip in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (18.0) user@host$ pip --version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module> from pip import main ImportError: cannot import name main user@host$ -- Michael F. Stemper Galatians 3:28 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
