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I've recently installed Ubuntu 20.04. I'm not an experienced Linux user, therefore I need help in Python configurations.

As far as I understood, the OS comes along with Python 3.8 preinstalled.

I need to work with tensorflow and 3.8 is not a good fit for that.

I installed python 3.7 and made an alias in bashrc for python. Now when I run python in terminal I see that I'm running exactly 3.7. However, the problems occur with packages installations via pip and pip3. Pip doesn't work. I obtain the following notification:

Command 'pip' not found, but there are 18 similar ones.

pip3 only works for 3.8. When I run pip3 --version I obtain:

pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)

What should I do in order to work with Python 3.7?

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You can always use python -m pip ....

So, add an alias to your .bashrc:

alias pip3.7='python3.7 -m pip'

or

alias pip='python -m pip'
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  • thank you so much! I completely forgot about python -m
    – Aidos
    Apr 28, 2020 at 7:32

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