How to install PIP on Linux CentOS

Pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages. Pip is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the RHEL distribution. First, we’ll install the EPEL repository.

[root@vnode ~]# rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
Install python-pip and any required packages:
yum install python-pip -y
Verify that pip is installed:
[root@vnode ~]# pip --version
pip 7.1.0 from /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (python 2.6)