I think I found the solution actually. I found it on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES/Deployment#Update_wheels and am pasting it below as well:

virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install whatever

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 10:20 AM Huji Lee <huji.huji@gmail.com> wrote:

Actually, I should have tested it before sending that email. When I run python3 -m venv $HOME/www/python/venv I get the following error. What am I missing here?

The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available.  On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.

    apt-get install python3-venv

You may need to use sudo with that command.  After installing the python3-venv
package, recreate your virtual environment.

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 8:57 AM Huji Lee <huji.huji@gmail.com> wrote:

Perfect, thanks!

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 6:01 AM Michael Schönitzer <michael.schoenitzer@wikimedia.de> wrote:

It's available – and you should use venv. Something like:

$ python3 -m venv $HOME/www/python/venv
$ source $HOME/www/python/venv/bin/activate
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install whatever

Cheers,

 M

2018-08-11 2:51 GMT+02:00 Huji Lee <huji.huji@gmail.com>:

Hi all,

What is the best way to install pip on the Clouds servers? I have a pywikibot program that depends on a pip-based package, and would like to be able to install that dependency using pip install.

Thanks,

Huji

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