Can you use ensurepip to install pip, and then use pip from there? I recently had to deal with missing pip on the last ubuntu LTS version, and that's what I had

Can you use ensurepip to install pip, and then use pip from there? I recently had to deal with missing pip on the last ubuntu LTS version, and that's what I had to do. Makes some amount of sense to stop novices messing up their python install right off the bat, much like I have on most of my machines.