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How To Fix — ‘pip’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function…
1 min readAug 17, 2022
Have you ever seen these errors:
- ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or externa, command
- ‘pip’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function…
If you are a Python developer, then you must have seen at least one of these errors in your development journey.
What exactly is is this error?
This error clearly says that something is wrong with pip. Pip is used to install and manage packages in Python.
What is the root cause?
Such errors usually appear when the system is not able to find the required path/tool to perform the installation.
Possible Solutions
Solution 1
Go to the path where Python is installed and run the pip command.
Solution 2
Set the required paths at system level using environment variables.
Do check out my video on YouTube to solve your problem using 2nd solution.
Happy troubleshooting!
