Using PIP To Install Python Packages, Or Modules

PIP is a package manager for Python to upgrade/install packages, or modules. In this post we will show how to install packages and modules using PIP.

Basic Syntax:

pip install package-name

For example to install numpy package, we will use the following command.

sudo pip install numpy

In the above command, I have used sudo because during installation sometimes directories need to be created. Hence prefix sudo gives it required permission for creating directories.

To upgrade a package we can use “–upgrade” add-on to pip install command to upgrade the packages. For example:

sudo pip install --upgrade numpy

To uninstall a package using pip we just have to use uninstall with pip command.

sudo pip uninstall package-name