pip installed under old version of python

Question

I installed Python 2.6 and pip on centos 6.4. I also upgraded python to 2.7.6 and updated bashrc to reference 2.7.6 for the python command.

Pip however, remains under 2.6 and any attempt to reinstall it with 2.7.6 just tells me there's nothing to do as it's already install. How can I install pip under 2.7.6?

I've also tried installing pip with get-pip.py but this is not failing as zlib is not available despite having installed zlib.

How can I install pip under 2.7.6?

This also tells me there's `Nothing to do` yet python27-pip command is still not found — Fraser, Aug 03 '17 at 13:34
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281 Aug 3 13:24 /usr/bin/pip -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 283 Aug 3 13:24 /usr/bin/pip2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 287 Aug 3 13:24 /usr/bin/pip2.6 — Fraser, Aug 03 '17 at 13:37
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/63269/discussion-between-alexander-tolkachev-and-fraser). — Alexander Tolkachev, Aug 03 '17 at 13:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '17 at 14:02

You have strange problem. As we discussed in chat try to install pip by curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python2.7 -.

Then create file /usr/bin/pip2.7 and fill it with:

#!/bin/python2.7

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys

from pip import main

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(main())

Make it executable chmod +x /usr/bin/pip2.7 and run it.

pip installed under old version of python

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