linux – cant remove python pip

linux – cant remove python pip

you need to execute the following command to install pip
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

and to remove you need to use
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove python3-pip

I had the same problem, but I solved using the command below:

sudo python -m pip uninstall pip

linux – cant remove python pip

Pip is in package python-pip or python3-pip if we are talking about python 3. You cant uninstall it with sudo apt-get remove pip. And when it comes to the traceback you got, check out this answer.