How to Install Pip for Python 2.6

How to install pip for python 2.6?

Just follow the instructions here:

Securely download get-pip.py (this is the 2.6-specific file, link from Ricardo Iramar's answer).
In the directory you saved get-pip.py, run
```
sudo python2.6 get-pip.py
```
and you'll be all set.

This will install pip for Python 2.6, and won't touch your version 2.7 installation.

How to install pip on a system with python 2.6

The structure of the site was changed. Pip is now under subdirectory pip. Pip for Python 2.6 is at https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.6/get-pip.py

How can I install a legacy PIP version with python 2.6.6 or python 2.7.5?

You can use get-pip.py for 2.7. Here's an example in a centos:7 Docker container:

$ python -V
Python 2.7.5
$ curl -fsSL -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py --no-python-version-warning && rm -f get-pip.py
$ python -m pip --version
pip 20.3.4 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip (python 2.7)

Docs: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#installing-with-get-pip-py. (Though admittedly, they don't go out of their way to point out the presence of the 2.6/2.7 branches, given that Python 2 is prominently EOL.)

How do I install pip for Python 2.6 on OS X?

Download the source file here. Then do

>> cd ~/Downloads
>> tar -xzvf pip-7.0.1.tar.gz

(replacing ~/Downloads if necessary). Then

>> cd pip-7.0.1
>> sudo python2.6 setup.py install
>> cd

(the last cd is used to leave the build directory). Now you should be able to run

>> python2.6 -c 'import pip;print pip.__version__'
7.0.1

By default, pip (when installed from source) should be installed into /usr/local/bin. To check:

>> /usr/local/bin/pip --version
pip 7.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.6.egg (python 2.6)

Now you can install your favorite packages using

>> /usr/local/bin/pip install package
>> python2.6 -c 'import package'

If you have conflicting versions of pip in /usr/local/bin you can try this ridiculous one liner:

>> python -c 'import os;dir="/usr/local/bin";[ os.system("echo %s/%s: && %s/%s --version"%(dir,s,dir,s)) for s in os.listdir("/usr/local/bin") if s.startswith("pip")  ]'
/usr/local/bin/pip:
pip 7.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.6.egg (python 2.6)
/usr/local/bin/pip2:
pip 7.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.6.egg (python 2.6)
/usr/local/bin/pip2.6:
pip 7.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.6.egg (python 2.6)

to find the one linked to py2.6. (in my case they are all the same)

How do I install pip on Windows?

Python 3.4+ and 2.7.9+

Good news! Python 3.4 (released March 2014) and Python 2.7.9 (released December 2014) ship with Pip. This is the best feature of any Python release. It makes the community's wealth of libraries accessible to everyone. Newbies are no longer excluded from using community libraries by the prohibitive difficulty of setup. In shipping with a package manager, Python joins Ruby, Node.js, Haskell, Perl, Go—almost every other contemporary language with a majority open-source community. Thank you, Python.

If you do find that pip is not available, simply run ensurepip.

On Windows:
```
py -3 -m ensurepip
```
Otherwise:
```
python3 -m ensurepip
```

Of course, that doesn't mean Python packaging is problem solved. The experience remains frustrating. I discuss this in the Stack Overflow question Does Python have a package/module management system?.

Python 3 ≤ 3.3 and 2 ≤ 2.7.8

Flying in the face of its 'batteries included' motto, Python ships without a package manager. To make matters worse, Pip was—until recently—ironically difficult to install.

Official instructions

Per https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#do-i-need-to-install-pip:

Download get-pip.py, being careful to save it as a .py file rather than .txt. Then, run it from the command prompt:

python get-pip.py

You possibly need an administrator command prompt to do this. Follow Start a Command Prompt as an Administrator (Microsoft TechNet).

This installs the pip package, which (in Windows) contains ...\Scripts\pip.exe that path must be in PATH environment variable to use pip from the command line (see the second part of 'Alternative Instructions' for adding it to your PATH,

Alternative instructions

The official documentation tells users to install Pip and each of its dependencies from source. That's tedious for the experienced and prohibitively difficult for newbies.

For our sake, Christoph Gohlke prepares Windows installers (.msi) for popular Python packages. He builds installers for all Python versions, both 32 and 64 bit. You need to:

Install setuptools
Install pip

For me, this installed Pip at C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe. Find pip.exe on your computer, then add its folder (for example, C:\Python27\Scripts) to your path (Start / Edit environment variables). Now you should be able to run pip from the command line. Try installing a package:

pip install httpie

There you go (hopefully)! Solutions for common problems are given below:

Proxy problems

If you work in an office, you might be behind an HTTP proxy. If so, set the environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy. Most Python applications (and other free software) respect these. Example syntax:

http://proxy_url:port
http://username:password@proxy_url:port

If you're really unlucky, your proxy might be a Microsoft NTLM proxy. Free software can't cope. The only solution is to install a free software friendly proxy that forwards to the nasty proxy. http://cntlm.sourceforge.net/

Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

Python modules can be partly written in C or C++. Pip tries to compile from source. If you don't have a C/C++ compiler installed and configured, you'll see this cryptic error message.

Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

You can fix that by installing a C++ compiler such as MinGW or Visual C++. Microsoft actually ships one specifically for use with Python. Or try Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7.

Often though it's easier to check Christoph's site for your package.

How to Install Pip for Python 2.6