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

I had the same problem as @dartdog and thanks to @Martin Mohan and @warvariuc I was able to fully uninstall pip

Unfortunately using the command

apt-get install python-pip 

Was installing an old version of pip so after doing

/usr/local/bin/pip uninstall pip  
apt-get remove python-pip  

To install the latest pip version I got the get-pip.py file from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

And once in the file directory from the command line executed the command python get-pip.py hope it helps someone

Also some of the commands need sudo good luck!!