[Tutor] Which pip for Ubuntu 12.04

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:02 AM
> Subject: [Tutor] Which pip for Ubuntu 12.04
> 
> How important is it to have the latest pip installed?
> 
> Initially I want to use it to install the latest pymongo driver for mongoDB.  
> The pip version in the Ubuntu 12.04 repositories is 1.0.1. I see on 
> http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/ the version is 1.2.1.
> 
> It certainly would be easier to install from the repositories but will that 
> version work to install the latest python packages?
> 
> Thanks,  Jim

You could just try it? And downloading it and then doing sudo tar -xvr pip.tar.gz, cd ..., sudo python setup.py isn't that hard, is it?

But you're right, I also nnoticed that the Canonical repositories are a little outdated sometimes. Would be nice if it's possible to add pypi.org, so updating would be easier.

Albert-Jan