Question

I tried installing pip in Manjaro (Arch Linux) from the terminal. I tried running the following command:

sudo pacman -S python-pip

It gave me the following error:

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 python-pip-22.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst failed to download
 Total (1/7)                                                                                                        3.9 MiB  80.0 KiB/s 00:50 [#######################################################################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file  python-pip-22.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst  from mirrors.ustc.edu.cn : SSL connection timeout
error: failed retrieving file  python-pip-22.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst  from mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file  python-pip-22.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst  from mirror.tarnkappe.info : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file  python-pip-22.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst  from mirrors.ucr.ac.cr : SSL connection timeout
error: failed retrieving file  python-pip-22.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst  from manjaro.ipacct.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file  python-pip-22.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst  from mirror.alpix.eu : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

How can I fix this issue? And why wasn t pip packaged with Python in the first place?

Answer 1

TLDR: just run pacman -Syu python-pip instead of pacman -S python-pip

As Arch Linux (and Manjaro) are rolling releases, it is not recommended to do partial updates as they can break packages or in this case after some time, the Pacman database can be outdated, so you should always do an update in order to prevent any issues when installing/updating packages. Unless you know explicitly that you do not want to do a partial update, you should not do it.

As for the 404 error, it is pretty common that the mirrors of the packages delete the old packages for those reasons.

In the case for pip, it is unknown to me, but it should be that python and pip are not the same and should be treated as such.

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