UPDATE: You can now install pip using pkg.
[cmp@server ~]# pkg install py27-pip Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: py27-pip: 9.0.1 Number of packages to be installed: 1 The process will require 13 MiB more space. 2 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y [1/1] Fetching py27-pip-9.0.1.txz: 100% 2 MiB 858.8kB/s 00:03 Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) [1/1] Installing py27-pip-9.0.1... Extracting py27-pip-9.0.1: 100%
Success!
Original post
Somewhat strangely, pip is not installed when you install Python using FreeBSD’s pkg. However, there’s a very simple fix.
[cmp@server ~]# python -m ensurepip Ignoring indexes: https://pypi.python.org/simple Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages Collecting pip Installing collected packages: pip Successfully installed pip-7.1.2 [cmp@server ~]# pip pip pip2 pip2.7