How to install python packages using pip on go daddy linux hosting (don't have root access)

Question

Could you tell me how to install packages using pip on Go daddy Linux hosted server. It doesn't provide root access. When I try to install some python package

pip install numpy

it shows:

-bash: pip: command not found

It is giving my Python 2.6.6 and the location is:

/usr/bin/python

Is there any hack for it?

Answer 1

You don't have pip installed. To install pip run this

easy_install --user pip

This will install pip for only you, without root access. If you don't have 'easy_installed' installed, you can run this to install pip without it

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && python get-pip.py --user

pip will be installed in .local/bin, to access it just use .local/bin/pip install numpy

To add pip to your PATH, so that you could access it like pip install numpy

execute this command:

echo "PATH=\$PATH:~/.local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

and then this:

source ~/.bashrc