python – E: Unable to locate package python3-pip

python – E: Unable to locate package python3-pip

For Ubuntu 18.04 with python 3.6.5 the python-pip package will install after :

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update

Which is enabling the category universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main universe 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main universe

Following a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04 (via Vagrant) the following installed successfully with no issues:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip

Note that the Ubuntu 18.04 download today shipped with Python 3.6.8 installed. This may vary by the time of your reading this post.

python – E: Unable to locate package python3-pip

First update then install python3-pip.So following two commands should work.

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip