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I'm doing this to install pip:

apt-get install python3-pip

But when I try use the command I have this error:

# pip3 install --upgrade pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 16, in main
    from pip._internal.utils.entrypoints import _wrapper
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip/_internal/utils/entrypoints.py", line 3, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 60
    sys.stderr.write(f"ERROR: {exc}")

I got the same message when I did pip3 --version:

# pip3 --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 16, in main
    from pip._internal.utils.entrypoints import _wrapper
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip/_internal/utils/entrypoints.py", line 3, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 60
    sys.stderr.write(f"ERROR: {exc}")
                                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I need help to fix it.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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1 Answers1

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you may try:

    $sudo apt-get autoremove
    $sudo apt-get update
    $sudo easy_install pip==20.3.4

then, while usig pip for installing pakages, use:

$sudo pip2 install <package>

However, using:

$sudo pip install <package>

may still give you the same error message. It is more likely related to no support for some pip versions, anymore.

This solution was tested on:

Distributor 
ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:   xenial

It was run on 32bit Chromenotebook
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