In this tutorial, you will learn how to upgrade PIP.

You will also learn how to check the current version of PIP, as well as downgrade to a previous version of PIP if you really need to.

TLDR; How to Upgrade PIP

The most obvious way, if python is mapped to the version you want pip to be upgraded on:

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python -m pip install --upgrade pip

or if you are running python3 from the python3 command itself:

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python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

or if you are running python3 and want to upgrade pip3:

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python3 -m pip3 install --upgrade pip3
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## How to upgrade PIP on Windows

Upgrading PIP on Windows is as simple as doing the same on Linux or Mac, just instead of opening the `Terminal`, you would rather open the `Command Prompt` to issue your commands.

Once you have opened the `Command Prompt`, type:

python.exe -m pip install –upgrade pip

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Python will now upgrade PIP to the latest version

## How to check the version of PIP

To check the version of PIP that you are running, you can open either the CommandPrompt (Windows) or the Terminal (Linux/Mac) and type:

pip –version

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If you are running `pip3` then you can type:

pip3 –version

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## How to download PIP to a previous version

Sometimes you may want to downgrade PIP to a previous version, this is easy to do with a single command:

python -m pip install pip==18.1

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Once again, if you are running `python3` binary, you would do the following instead:

python3 -m pip install pip==18.1

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..and if you were trying to do this for `pip3`, then you could do it as follows:

python3 -m pip3 install pip3==18.1