On 2018-08-28 13:45, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 4:37 AM, Michael F. Stemper > <michael.stem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2018-08-28 13:19, Larry Martell wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Michael F. Stemper >>> <michael.stem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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? >> >>> Try doing this: >>> >>> sudo python -m pip uninstall pip >>> sudo apt remove python-pip >>> sudo apt install python-pip >>> source .bashrc >> >> I'm certainly more comfortable with apt than with pip (probably >> due to longer experience). >> >> What's that last bit, though? From what I can find on-line, it looks as >> if it would be similar to: >> . ~/.bashrc >> but I don't quite understand the point of doing that *after* all of >> the other stuff. > > The dot is an alias for "source", so it's identical (assuming you're > in your home directory). I'm not sure what the point of it is, but > maybe it's ensuring that your $PATH is set correctly. Well, I proceeded as suggested, and things are no longer broken: user@host$ pip --version pip 8.1.1 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7) user@host$ (The same output before and after doing the "source .bashrc") I guess that I'll just ignore the messages that tell me to upgrade my pip. Thanks to all! -- Michael F. Stemper Economists have correctly predicted seven of the last three recessions. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
