Downgrade PIP

In previous section, we have covered how to upgrade and check the version of PIP in Windows. But what if you like to revert back to a previous version of PIP? You can easily downgrade your Window’s PIP version to it’s previous version. How ? let’s see,

To downgrade the PIP version just type the following command:

python -m pip install pip==version_name

Suppose you wanted to downgrade your PIP version to 18.1 then,

python -m pip install pip==18.1

You will see the version of PIP that you wanted to install is installed.

Successfully installed pip-18.1


How to Upgrade PIP on Windows

In this tutorial, we will see how to Upgrade PIP on Windows. We will cover how to upgrade, check the version, and also how to downgrade PIP to the previous version.

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