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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0006287Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2020-04-14 15:072020-04-15 07:34
Reporterjsf9k Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Versionkali-dev 
Summary0006287: python-pip package not available
Description

I noticed starting Friday (April 10, 2020) that the python-pip package is no longer available, but python2 appears to still be the default python. This is inconsistent.

Steps To Reproduce

$ docker pull kalilinux/kali-rolling:latest
$ docker run -it kalilinux/kali-rolling:latest /bin/bash
root@d1c020bc9b90:/# apt-get update && apt-get install python-pip
Get:1 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling InRelease [30.5 kB]
Get:2 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 Packages [16.3 MB]
Get:3 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/non-free amd64 Packages [199 kB]
Get:4 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/contrib amd64 Packages [101 kB]
Fetched 16.6 MB in 2s (7466 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-pip

Activities

jsf9k

jsf9k

2020-04-14 19:25

reporter   ~0012621

This is actually breaking a lot of builds for me. It would be great if Kali-rolling could either restore the python-pip package or make python3 the default python. Right now Kali-rolling is in a sort of limbo state.
felddy

felddy

2020-04-14 21:09

reporter   ~0012622

This is also breaking our systems and ops. A quick resolution would be much appreciated. �
rhertzog

rhertzog

2020-04-15 07:34

administrator   ~0012623

There's nothing like the "default python". /usr/bin/python is python2, /usr/bin/python3 is python3. Most scripts now use python3 and python3 is the de-facto default python.

Debian made the choice to not update /usr/bin/python to not break user scripts and the like.

All python modules, including pip, are being updated to no longer provide the python 2 version so this is expected and normal. Please update your code/automation to use python3.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-04-14 15:07 jsf9k New Issue
2020-04-14 19:25 jsf9k Note Added: 0012621
2020-04-14 21:09 felddy Note Added: 0012622
2020-04-15 07:34 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2020-04-15 07:34 rhertzog Status new => closed
2020-04-15 07:34 rhertzog Resolution open => no change required
2020-04-15 07:34 rhertzog Note Added: 0012623