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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I am not able to reproduce this issue, as I was able to install both python3-pip and python-pip on my Ubuntu 16.04 system. Based on the error message (and that you have python-pip already installed) it seems to be some mismatch in the packages it suggests when you attempt to install python3-pip.

Good call on running `sudo apt update` first, that normally sorts out mismatch issues. Could you please re-run that, and possibly install any missing updates. If the problem persists, I would be interested in the output of `apt policy python3-pip python-pip-whl` to see which package versions it will attempt to find and install.

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