Just so others who may be dismayed by the length of the install, can be reassured that all is normal.... a copy of my Terminal screen on entering both commands (separately) for
Debian/Ubuntu/derivatives:
brian@brian-desktop:~$ sudo apt install python-pip
[sudo] password for brian:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package python-pip is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
python3-pip
E: Package 'python-pip' has no installation candidate
brian@brian-desktop:~$ sudo apt install python3-pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
build-essential g++ g++-9 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcrypt-dev libexpat1-dev
libpython3-dev libpython3.8-dev libstdc++-9-dev python-pip-whl python3-dev
python3-distutils python3-setuptools python3-wheel python3.8-dev zlib1g-dev
Suggested packages:
g++-multilib g++-9-multilib gcc-9-doc glibc-doc libstdc++-9-doc
python-setuptools-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
build-essential g++ g++-9 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcrypt-dev libexpat1-dev
libpython3-dev libpython3.8-dev libstdc++-9-dev python-pip-whl python3-dev
python3-distutils python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel python3.8-dev
zlib1g-dev
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