How to install pip (python) to user without root access

I'm trying to install pip (python installer) to my username since I don't have root privileges and can't just sudo apt-get install python-pip.

So what I've done is just easy_install --user pip. That installs it to .local/bin apparently but then when I call it like so:

pip install --user astropy

It says that pip is not currently installed.

I have limited knowledge of linux and of the system I'm using (NX connection to a machine at my university). I know I should be able to do this!

2 Answers

I hope I'm right and the problem is with your PATH, try this

You can add this to your ~/.bashrc file:

PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin

If you don't know how, you can just execute this line in a Terminal:

echo "PATH=\$PATH:~/.local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

You can also check what's in your PATH by typing in the Terminal

echo $PATH

This may be related. How to install python from source on a remote machine without root access.

Download the python source release and get the folder readied for installation from source.

wget
tar zxfv Python-3.6.9.tgz
find ~/inflated_location/Python-3.6.9/Python -type d | xargs chmod 0755
cd Python-3.6.9

Install from source

./configure --prefix=~/inflated_location/Python-3.6.9/Python
make
make install

Export the path variable

nano ~/.bashrc
export PATH=~/inflated_folder/python/Python-3.6.9/:$PATH
source ~/.bashrc

Now you have python3.6 installed for logged in user and can be invoked now using command python

The easiest way that I have followed is

python -m pip install <package-name> --user