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On Ubuntu 10.04 I've used apt-get install pip to install pip after which I installed django. Then I tried to uninstall django with pip via pip uninstall django which gives me:

pip: error: No command by the name pip uninstall

From doing some research that is because I'm using an older version.

$pip --version
pip 0.3.1 from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages (python 2.6)

I first realized that this version of pip did not have uninstall when I installed the wrong version of django and tried to uninstall it with

pip uninstall django

and ended up with 

pip: error: No command by the name pip uninstall

From another article:

pip 0.3.1 is over two years old, and indeed it does not include the uninstall command. The current version of pip is 1.0.1.

I presume you're using an OS-packaged version of pip; those tend to be quite out of date. Quite a few bugs have been fixed and features added in the last couple years.

So what is the correct way to upgrade it on Ubuntu 10.04 so that I can gain access to the uninstall command?

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    try using sudo pip install --upgrade pip
    – harish.venkat
    Commented Apr 17, 2012 at 20:29
  • I tried that, it said that it upgraded but then using pip --version still gives the same version.
    – cwd
    Commented Apr 18, 2012 at 1:12

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Remove your system wide installation of pip:

sudo apt-get purge python-pip

Then install a fresh copy of pip:

curl  https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python

Tested on ubuntu 10.04 i686

I suggest you to use virtualenv. For further details see the Official pip documentation

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  • I would use easy_install pip instead of the curl command.
    – Gert
    Commented Apr 18, 2012 at 9:08
  • A more elegant solution would be to ask for backporting python-pip 1.0-1 from Ubuntu Oneiric to Lucid. Of course, you can do this manually by yourself, too.
    – jofel
    Commented Apr 18, 2012 at 9:43
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As a matter of fact, pip install --upgrade pip does work, but it install a new pip, in my case pip-2.6. So the command to uninstall is pip-2.6 uninstall package-name.

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In my case after a sudo pip install --upgrade pip on ubuntu 10.04 /usr/bin/pip is unchanged but /usr/local/bin/pip is pip 1.1

pip --version
pip 0.3.1 from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages (python 2.6)

/usr/local/bin/pip --version
pip 1.1 from /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages (python 2.6)
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Default install prefix is /usr/local, use:

sudo pip install --upgrade --install-option="--prefix=/usr" pip
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  • I was using pip 1.0 on Ubuntu 12.04. The way I originally installed pip was by running sudo apt-get install python-pip. I wanted to upgrade, so I tried your solution. Afterwards, which pip did, in fact, output /usr/bin/pip, as expected, but running pip --version had an error ending with this: pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pip==1.5.5
    – Nick
    Commented May 9, 2014 at 16:51
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My case: I first removed the old pip and then re-installed the latest version.

apt-get remove python-pip;
curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | sudo python;
ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip;
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