Yeah, updating pip is good, but I don't think necessary on Ubuntu.

Adam

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:40 PM Pat Lurcock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Evening all,
>
> I have started installing the dependencies as per the script on the git
> hub, one step at a time.
> The first few went OK. When running the line:
>  $sudo apt-get install python-pip -y
> I got a couple of messages:
> The directory '/home/arches/.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.
> and
> The directory '/home/arches/.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.
>
> I rewound a bit (I am using a virtual machine and taking regular
> snapshots) and,as advised, replaced the line with
>  $sudo -H apt-get install python-pip -y
> and this time did not get any warnings.
>
> The next step runs the line:
>   $pip install virtualenv==13.1.2
> which works OK but ends with a message:
> You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 18.1 is available.
> You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
>
> I understand that Arches is written in a legacy version of python (2.7)
> and would like to check that it is OK to use the latest version of pip or
> should we stick with the old one that gets installed? I don't really
> understand  how it ties together, and whether versions of pip are tied to
> versions of python.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Pat
>
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