Why is pip not upgrading cleanly on ubuntu 20.04 lts?

pip upgrade is not working, shows it upgraded by version is still showing old version

root@ubuntu:~# pip install --upgrade pip Collecting pip Downloading pip-22.0.3-py3-none-any.whl (2.1 MB) |████████████████████████████████| 2.1 MB 11.9 MB/s Installing collected packages: pip Attempting uninstall: pip Found existing installation: pip 20.0.2 Not uninstalling pip at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr Can't uninstall 'pip'. No files were found to uninstall. Successfully installed pip-22.0.3 root@ubuntu:~# pip -V pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8) root@ubuntu:~# pip install --upgrade pip Collecting pip Using cached pip-22.0.3-py3-none-any.whl (2.1 MB) Installing collected packages: pip Attempting uninstall: pip Found existing installation: pip 20.0.2 Not uninstalling pip at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr Can't uninstall 'pip'. No files were found to uninstall. Successfully installed pip-22.0.3 root@ubuntu:~# pip -V pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8) 

here are locations of python/pip

root@ubuntu:~# which pip /usr/local/bin/pip root@ubuntu:~# which pip3 /usr/local/bin/pip3 root@ubuntu:~# which python /usr/bin/python root@ubuntu:~# which python3 /usr/bin/python3 root@ubuntu:~# python3 -V Python 3.8.10 root@ubuntu:~# python -V Python 3.8.10 root@ubuntu:~# pip3 -V pip 22.0.3 from /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8) root@ubuntu:~# pip -V pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8) 

i will like to cleanly point pip to pip3, like i did with apt install python-is-python3

is there a package like apt install pip-is-pip3?

I am trying to shy away from creating symlinks manually myself

1 Answer

Pretty much did this for now, but if anyone finds a non-manual way similar to apt install python-is-python3 please post

root@ubuntu:~# rm -rf /usr/local/bin/pip root@ubuntu:~# ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip3 /usr/local/bin/pip root@ubuntu:~# rm -rf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip root@ubuntu:~# ln -s /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pip /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip root@ubuntu:~# pip -V pip 22.0.3 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)