There was an error checking the latest version of pip

Are you facing the error “There was an error checking the latest version of PIP.”? Yes, you have come to the right place. Today in this tutorial, I will show you how to solve this Python error.

We get this error because of the outdated version of PIP. You can upgrade your Python PIP to get rid of this error.

When you use the Outdated/Old PIP Version, you may get an error like this:

WARNING: There was an error checking the latest version of pip.

Fixed: There was an error checking the latest version of pip

The easiest way to solve this error is to run the pip upgrade command to upgrade your pip to the latest version.

pip install --upgrade pip

I am going to give you the list of commands to upgrade the PIP on all operating systems.

Upgrade the PIP on All Operating Systems

# if you have pip already installed
pip install --upgrade pip

# if your pip is aliased as pip3 (Python 3)
pip3 install --upgrade pip

# if you don't have pip in your PATH environment variable
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

# if you don't have pip in your PATH environment variable
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

# if you have easy_install
easy_install --upgrade pip

# if you get a permissions error
sudo easy_install --upgrade pip

# if you get a permissions error
pip install --upgrade pip --user

# upgrade pip for the current user
python -m pip install --user --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip

# Installing pip directly from get-pip.py (MacOS and Linux)
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

# if you get permissions issues you can use this command
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python

# alternative for Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade python-pip

# alternative for Red Hat / CentOS / Fedorasudo 
yum install epel-release
sudo yum install python-pip
sudo yum update python-pip

When you upgrade the PIP, You also need to upgrade ‘setuptools‘ and ‘wheels‘. You can update these packages by using these commands.

pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
pip3 install --upgrade setuptools wheel
python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel

Conclusion

Programmers, We discussed how we can solve the error “There was an error checking the latest version of pip” in Python. You only need to upgrade the pip version to the latest version. If you still facing the issues please let us know in the comment section.