How to downgrade the installed version of 'pip' on windows?
Question:
On a windows 7 machine I have pip version 1.5.6 installed:
pip 1.5.6 from C:UsersdietzPNCtasENVlibsite-packages (python 2.7)
In order to find the reason for an error I want to install a different version of pip, which worked fine for me. So how can I uninstall pip and install version 1.2.1 instead?
Answers:
pip itself is just a normal python package. Thus you can install pip with pip.
Of cource, you don’t want to affect the system’s pip, install it inside a virtualenv.
pip install pip==1.2.1
If downgrading from pip version 10 because of PyCharm manage.py or other python errors:
python -m pip install pip==9.0.1
well the only thing that will work is
python -m pip install pip==
you can and should run it under IDE terminal (mine was pycharm)
If you have to downgrade pip version do following steps:
step1. pip uninstall pip
step2. pip install pip==version number you want to install or downgrade
step3. check version of pip using pip –version
This process also works when any other package giving error exit code(2) you can follow these steps and install your package.
If you want to upgrade or downgrade to different version of pip, better use –upgrade option at one go instead doing it in two steps. i.e. first uninstalling the existing and then re-installing to new version, below does both in one go as shown below.
USE: Executed on WIN10 with Bash
python -m pip install –upgrade pip==19.2.3
$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip==19.2.3
Collecting pip==19.2.3
Using cached pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4 MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
Attempting uninstall: pip
Found existing installation: pip 21.3.1
Uninstalling pip-21.3.1:
Successfully uninstalled pip-21.3.1
Successfully installed pip-19.2.3
On a windows 7 machine I have pip version 1.5.6 installed:
pip 1.5.6 from C:UsersdietzPNCtasENVlibsite-packages (python 2.7)
In order to find the reason for an error I want to install a different version of pip, which worked fine for me. So how can I uninstall pip and install version 1.2.1 instead?
pip itself is just a normal python package. Thus you can install pip with pip.
Of cource, you don’t want to affect the system’s pip, install it inside a virtualenv.
pip install pip==1.2.1
If downgrading from pip version 10 because of PyCharm manage.py or other python errors:
python -m pip install pip==9.0.1
well the only thing that will work is
python -m pip install pip==
you can and should run it under IDE terminal (mine was pycharm)
If you have to downgrade pip version do following steps:
step1. pip uninstall pip
step2. pip install pip==version number you want to install or downgrade
step3. check version of pip using pip –version
This process also works when any other package giving error exit code(2) you can follow these steps and install your package.
If you want to upgrade or downgrade to different version of pip, better use –upgrade option at one go instead doing it in two steps. i.e. first uninstalling the existing and then re-installing to new version, below does both in one go as shown below.
USE: Executed on WIN10 with Bash
python -m pip install –upgrade pip==19.2.3
$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip==19.2.3
Collecting pip==19.2.3
Using cached pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4 MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
Attempting uninstall: pip
Found existing installation: pip 21.3.1
Uninstalling pip-21.3.1:
Successfully uninstalled pip-21.3.1
Successfully installed pip-19.2.3