Where did the easy_install and pip packages go?

Question

I wrote a Bash script which automates the installation of an application based on ERPNext 3.6.1* on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS laptop.

Part of the script installs required dependencies using apt-get install, which include pip and easy_install. The script worked fine a couple days ago, but now when I try to run it, this step fails with the following error messages from apt-get in the terminal:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package easy_install
E: Unable to locate package pip

I cannot find these packages in the Ubuntu Software Center either, although I do still have the commands installed on my system (see below) and a search for either in the Ubuntu Software Center returns the installed package python-pip as the first result.

I also ran the following to try and figure out which package owns the installed commands:

christopher@SkyTemple:~$ whereis easy_install
easy_install: /usr/local/bin/easy_install
christopher@SkyTemple:~$ dpkg -S /usr/local/bin/easy_install
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/local/bin/easy_install
christopher@SkyTemple:~$ whereis pip
pip: /usr/bin/pip /usr/bin/X11/pip /usr/local/bin/pip /usr/local/bin/pip2.7 /usr/share/man/man1/pip.1.gz
christopher@SkyTemple:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/pip
python-pip: /usr/bin/pip

Did pip and easy_install recently roll into python-pip? Or are they altogether gone now? I need to know how I should update my script, if needed.

_{* Out of date, I know, but this is what my employer has supplied from our contractor, so I need to work with it.}

Answer 1

pip has always been in package python-pip and easy_install in python-setuptools.

Ubuntu 10.04 has a package pip but that's a different program ("Perl Installation Program").

You seem to have installed your own version of setuptools in /usr/local/.