pip3 command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

pip3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pip3: command not found

Solutions to pip3: command not found

How To Fix pip3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pip3 is provided by python3-pip package.

python3-pip is:

pip is the Python package installer. It integrates with virtualenv, doesn’t do partial installs, can save package state for replaying, can install from non-egg sources, and can install from version control repositories.

This is the Python 3 version of the package.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install python3-pip.

sudo apt -y install python3-pip

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install python3-pip

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pip3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.