I am trying to install python-pip in a centos7 docker container, but I think I may be missing some package or something.

[root@aasdfasdfa /]# yum -y install python-pip
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base | 3.6 kB 00:00:00
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
updates/7/x86_64/primary_db | 8.4 MB 00:00:31
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No package python-pip available.
Error: Nothing to do

What do I need to run before yum -y install python-pip so that it will install correctly. Note that easy_install is also broken so thats not an option.

6 Answers

You have to enable the EPEL repo, use:

yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release

This command will install the correct EPEL repository for the CentOS version you are running.

After this you will be able to install python-pip.

1

I was going crazy about the same issue. The reason why yum couldn't find python-pip was that it is not called python-pip anymore. Starting with EPEL Version 7 it is renamed to identify the python version. On my centOS machine i can find now the following python*-pip packages.

[root@asdasdasdasdsa ~]# yum info python*-pip
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Available Packages
Name : python2-pip
Arch : noarch
Version : 8.1.2
Release : 5.el7
Size : 1.7 M
Repo : epel/x86_64
Summary : A tool for installing and managing Python 2 packages
URL :
License : MIT
Description : Pip is a replacement for `easy_install : < It uses mostly the : same techniques for finding packages, so packages that were made : easy_installable should be pip-installable as well.
Name : python34-pip
Arch : noarch
Version : 8.1.2
Release : 5.el7
Size : 1.7 M
Repo : epel/x86_64
Summary : A tool for installing and managing Python3 packages
URL :
License : MIT
Description : Pip is a replacement for `easy_install : < It uses mostly the : same techniques for finding packages, so packages that were made : easy_installable should be pip-installable as well.

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The CentOS Docker image doesn't include the EPEL repository by default, as a regular CentOS installation does. You should yum install epel-release first -- after that, yum install python-pip should work.

For CentOS 8 you need to run these commands:

dnf install python2-pip # For Python 2
dnf install python3-pip # For Python 3

Then you can use pip3 or pip2

1

If you get the same error even after installing the epel repo, try:

sudo yum install -y --enablerepo="epel" python-pip

1

Follow these commands step by step:

yum install python36
yum install python36-devel
yum install python36-setuptools
easy_install-3.6 pip

Once done check the python version

python3.6 -V

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