How to install pip on Ubuntu 16.04

This mini how to will show you how to install pip on Ubuntu 16.04. Pip is a good alternative to install Python packages. With pip, we can easily install various packages written in Python. For more information about pip, please visit this wiki page.

Install pip on Ubuntu 16.04

Open Terminal and execute the following command to install pip and all its dependencies.

sudo apt install python-pip python-dev build-essential

Output

dhani@dhani-ThinkPad-T450:~/Downloads/AWS_LightSail$ sudo apt install python-pip python-dev build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.1ubuntu2).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-4.4.0-87 linux-headers-4.4.0-87-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-92 linux-headers-4.4.0-92-generic linux-image-4.4.0-87-generic
  linux-image-4.4.0-92-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-87-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-92-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libpython-all-dev libpython-dev libpython2.7-dev python-all python-all-dev python-pip-whl python-setuptools python-wheel python2.7-dev
Suggested packages:
  python-setuptools-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpython-all-dev libpython-dev libpython2.7-dev python-all python-all-dev python-dev python-pip python-pip-whl python-setuptools python-wheel
  python2.7-dev
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 65 not upgraded.
Need to get 29,6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 43,8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

In few moments, pip should be installed and ready for use. Thanks for reading this post and cheers.