# Virtual Environments and Packages — Managing Packages with pip

> You can install, upgrade, and remove packages using a program called pip.

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You can install, upgrade, and remove packages using a program called pip. By default pip will install packages from the Python Package Index &lt; You can browse the Python Package Index by going to it in your web browser.

pip has a number of subcommands: "install", "uninstall", "freeze", etc. (Consult the installing-index guide for complete documentation for pip.)

You can install the latest version of a package by specifying a package's name

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```console
(tutorial-env) $ python -m pip install novas
Collecting novas
Downloading novas-3.1.1.3.tar.gz (136kB)
Installing collected packages: novas
Running setup.py install for novas
Successfully installed novas-3.1.1.3
```

You can also install a specific version of a package by giving the package name followed by == and the version number

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
(tutorial-env) $ python -m pip install requests==2.6.0
Collecting requests==2.6.0
Using cached requests-2.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: requests
Successfully installed requests-2.6.0
```

If you re-run this command, pip will notice that the requested version is already installed and do nothing. You can supply a different version number to get that version, or you can run python -m pip install --upgrade to upgrade the package to the latest version

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
(tutorial-env) $ python -m pip install --upgrade requests
Collecting requests
Installing collected packages: requests
Found existing installation: requests 2.6.0
Uninstalling requests-2.6.0:
Successfully uninstalled requests-2.6.0
Successfully installed requests-2.7.0
```

python -m pip uninstall followed by one or more package names will remove the packages from the virtual environment.

python -m pip show will display information about a particular package

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