Unable to locate package with apt-get remove

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I'm trying to remove pip (because I have pip3). I did sudo apt-get remove --purge pip, and get

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

But which pip gives

/usr/local/bin/pip

I can confirm that pip doesn't work, because pip --version gives

bash: /usr/local/bin/pip: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

How to I clean up my system?

FYI I'm using Ubuntu on Windows (WSL). I really hope this isn't the problem, because everything else seems to be working fine.

There is no package named pip. Probably you have python-pip package. (though WSL may be different..? — doug, Sep 3 '17 at 0:08
@doug I also tried sudo apt-get remove python-pip, doesn't work. — ved, Sep 3 '17 at 0:29
Have you tried apt list | grep pip to find the package name? — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Oct 8 '17 at 0:07

cosmoscalibur · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-16 02:41:00Z

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Because you have pip3, you need to uninstall python3-pip.

answered Aug 16 '18 at 2:41

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