After upgrading PIP to CentOS 6, which still uses Python2.7, PIP for each command crashes with an error.
For example:
pip install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/88/d9/761f0b1e0551a3559afe4d34bd9bf68fc8de3292363b3775dda39b62ce84/pip-22.0.3.tar.gz (2.1MB)
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Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-snCNSf/pip/setup.py", line 7
def read(rel_path: str) -> str:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-snCNSf/pip/
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 22.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Reason:
PIP versions above 20.3 do not support Python2.7
Solution:
Install latest supported version
pip install --upgrade pip==20.3