How to install python3 version of package via pip on Ubuntu?

Question

I have both python2.7 and python3.2 installed in Ubuntu 12.04.
The symbolic link python links to python2.7

Answer 1

The easiest way to install latest pip2/pip3 and corresponding packages:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python2
pip2 install package-name    

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3
pip3 install package-name

^{Note: please run these commands as root}