I screwed up the system version of Python Pip on Ubuntu 12.10

Question

I wanted to update pip on my main install of Python, specifically to get the list command. Which also includes the list- updates capability.

So I ran:

Answer 1

Before getting happy with apt-get removes and installs. It's worthwhle to reset your bash cache.

hash -r

Bash will cache the path to pip using the distrubtion install (apt-get) which is /usr/bin/pip. If you're still in the same shell session, due to the cache, after updating pip from pip your shell will still look in /usr/bin/ and not /usr/local/bin/

for example:

$apt-get install python-pip
$which pip
/usr/bin/pip

$pip install -U pip
$which pip
/usr/bin/pip

$hash -r
$which pip
/usr/local/bin/pip