I have installed Python on an offline server but I cannot install pip

this is what I have done :

1 ) Download the archive file pip-21.3.1.tar.gz and put it on my offline Linux server. extract the archive file.

2 ) cd pip-21.3.1

3 ) Run python3 setup.py install

and this is the error that I get :

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

CodePudding user response：

That's because you need to install setuptools - which is the separate module.

Alternative (and prefered) solution would be to install pip3 using rpm packages (here's seems to be instruction for that: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6996

CodePudding user response：

You might try using ensurepip if you have python3.4 or newer, as it

...does not access the internet. All of the components needed to bootstrap pip are included as internal parts of the package.

in your case

python3 -m ensurepip

should suffice

CodePudding user response：

You already got an answer on how to solve the problem. The reason why you need to install setuptools is that pip's setup.py starts with:

import os
import sys

from setuptools import find_packages, setup

As you can see the last line tries to import from setuptools that is not from the standard library.

If the Python you're using is the one that has been installed with rpm, go and use rpm as already suggested. If the Python has been custom installed, that command may not solve yout problem: suppose you installed Python 3.9 and system Python is 3.7, the site-package directory would be different.