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After PIP install --upgrade Dpkg still lists old python packages

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I recently upgraded all python data analysis tools using pip. When I do

dpkg -l |grep python

I see the old version numbers of the software I just upgraded via pip.

How can I ensure that the dpkg list reports the correct versions?
(I assume dpkg -l needs to be correct)

For example, I upgraded ipython to version 1.0.0 using pip; however, dpkg reports version 0.13.2-1~ubuntu12.04.1

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answered 1 Year ago mocipe · Accepted Answer

It is not the same if you use dpkg instead of pip. The first is a package manager for Debian based systems and provides means to handle packages and install packages from the repositories made by package teams. PIP handles Python only packages and installs them from the cheese shop PyPI.

The two methods differ to the versions which they install with PIP always installing the newest package version.

One method to list all installed packages is to install and use yolk: sudo pip install yolk and then issue yolk -l to list all packages.

Other methods are mentioned at the following SE question:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/739993/307826

Also these two questions talk about the difference of apt-get - pip for installing Python packages:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/6874527/307826

easy_install/pip or apt-get