What is the difference between installing a package using pip vs. apt-get?

Question

I\'m trying to deploy a Django site on an Ubuntu machine. I need to install Psycopg2 and PIL but it seems that I\'m able to install them using either apt-get or using pip. Is th

Answer 1

I always recommend installing Python package with pip, because some OS package managers do packages customizations, and it can either break or change package's behavior.

If you need to install a package globally:

$ sudo pip install PACKAGE

And it will try to download your package from PyPI or project's links.