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

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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)

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