-bash: pip: command not found

Part 1 (2017)
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I am trying to get started here by downloading all of the necessary software for the program, however, I am running into a relatively easy hiccup right off the start, which is that Cygwin is telling me there is no such pip command in its library.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

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take a look at this:

Although you could just install pip on windows along with all the dependencies.

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Thank you for the help! The link you provided along with: https://serverfault.com/questions/7282/how-to-run-easy-install-in-cygwin helped me figure it out!

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Do you remember how did you resolve this? I am having the same problem and have tried all above nothing works

Thanks
Susan

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Hey @susanli! So basically you need to install ez_setup onto your computer. The easiest way to do it is following this reccomendation from stackexchange:

Open up your cygwin prompt and type the following:

$ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
$ python ez_setup.py

That should install ez_setup and then running pip should be possible!

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Thanks for your quick reply, after the above 2 lines I got this:
-bash: python: command not found

So I have to find out why “python command not found”

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Thank you for your help, now it works like a dream

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When I tried to run pip on mac os x, I got: command not found.

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I was running python3, but not anaconda. I did install anaconda 2.7 for mac and python --version says:
Python 2.7.10

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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On a more recent anaconda and cygwin install, pip was installed as “pip2.7”

hth

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Yes! All the quirky errors i had in the terminal are gone!

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Not sure what changed but pip install awscli worked, even though I did not use ez_setup.py
I just tried it again…

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I have the same problem “python command not found”.
Do you remember how did you resolve this?

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For me, it was because my Cygwin did not include python, I downloaded again, then it worked.

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Hi, same problem as the top post. I have installed Anaconda3 before Cygwin. From the above discussion, am I right to say that I will need to reinstall Cygwin with the Python package provided there? Are there any alternatives? Can I change the Cygwin config file to manually add a path leading to my python.exe? Thank you!

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easy_install-3.6 pip

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Downloaded python or cygwin again? I’ve first installed python using Anaconda and then installed Cygwin as per lecture

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I got it.

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Solution:

$ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
$ python ez_setup.py

If you have “python command not found” issue:
rerun cygwin installer and in the setup window view ‘Full’ and in the Search window type ‘python2-setuptools’

Now you’ve python

So, run:

$ easy_install-2.7 pip

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Thanks guys, it worked like a charm :slight_smile:

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Worked for me (Windows 10), thanks.
However: On my first attempt I got an error from easy_install-2.7 saying that I do not have the right permissions to change the /lib/python2.7 path. This was true as I installed cygwin with another account with administrative rights.

I fixed this with deleting cygwin again an reinstalling it only for my working account (without admin rights) by starting

 `setup-x86_64.exe --no-admin`

from the command line. Then it worked.