How can I install a specific version of pip via easy-install? - Mac OS Mavericks

Question

I am constantly getting the

Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/

whenever I try to pip install anything with the mos

Answer 1

You should be able to install pip with pip:

pip install --upgrade pip==1.2.1

Answer 2

Based on your context, you can uninstall as above and then run:

sudo easy_install pip==1.2.1

No more pesky SSL errors.

Answer 3

Uninstall any previous installation of pip. Considering you are using system wide installation,

sudo apt-get remove python-pip

and also,

pip uninstall pip

Now,

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pip==<specific version>
sudo pip install virtualenv

It's preferred to use virtual environment though.