PIP is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python.

PIP can be installed either by using YUM or with Curl & Python.

  • Login to your CentOS 7 server with root user using putty or any SSH Client
  • Once logged in add/install the EPEL repository :

    rpm -iUvh dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm
  • On the next step update the packages:
    yum –y update
  • The last step would be to install python-PIP and any other required packages with the command
    yum -y install python-pip
  • Check installed version:
    pip –V