E: Unable to locate package python-pip [duplicate]

I'm running ubuntu 20.04 (a clean install) I ran the command to install the universe repository which it said was already installed but for whatever reason it still says it can't find python-pip. I am able to install pip3 for python3 (but different projects use different versions of python so I'm trying to get this one to work) I'm wondering if python3 is the only supported apt package at this time or if I'm missing something?

This is the command I'm running: sudo apt-get install python-pip

And this is the output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-pip

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1 Answer

The package python-pip was removed in the upgrade to 20.04. This is because Ubuntu no longer supports Python 2.x.

If you are going to program in Python you will need to use Python 3 or higher. To install pip3 (pip but for Python 3) type in sudo apt install python3-pipThen pip3 install MODULE.