How to upgrade and downgrade PIP

What is PIP: Pip is a module or package management system used to install and manage software packages found in the Python Package Index

Note: PIP is a replacement for easy install. Here are the steps to upgrade and downgrade PIP.

Upgrade PIP: Run the following command below to upgrade the Pip to version to 20.0.2 from 19.2.3

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

See the version of installed PIP, run the command below                

$ pip --version
pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip (python 2.7)

Downgrade PIP: The version you wish to downgrade to needs to be specified as shown below.

$ python -m pip install pip==19.2