First, let us have a look at some background on PIP.
You do not have to install PIP if you do not want to; the choice is yours. You can continue to use easy_install if you like.
Note
According to the Distribute propaganda, PIP works with the current Distutils library and it will work with Distutils 2, whereas the future of easy_install is uncertain.
And now we shall install PIP.
To install PIP, open Finder | Applications | Utilities | Terminal and type:
$ sudo easy_install pip
You should see:
To verify that PIP works, type:
$ sudo pip
You should see:
We have just finished demonstrating how to install and test PIP on Ubuntu Linux.