zsh command cannot found pip

Question

How can I use pip in oh-my-zsh? I was trying to install nltk through pip, but it told me zsh: command not found: pip. When I check plu

Answer 1

I'm on MacOS and use ZSH. It seems pip 2.7 can't be found, although it is installed. I believe my paths to "pip" are linked wrong (I also have python3 and pip3 installed via brew).

To get around the issue I created an alias. If you don't have an .aliases file, create one in your homedir. Then open the file:

nano ~/.aliases

and add:

## PIP for python2.7 ##
alias pip="python -m pip "

You need to tell ZSH to pick up the alias file (assuming you don't have this setup already). Open your .zshrc:

nano ~/.zshrc

The add the following near the bottom of the file:

[ -f "$HOME/.aliases" ] && source "$HOME/.aliases"

From the terminal, run:

source ~/.zshrc

Or quit your terminal and reopen it.

Now you can run:

pip install