Pip for Python 3.8

How do I install Pip for Python 3.8 ? I made 3.8 my default Python version.

sudo apt install python3.8-pip

gives

unable to locate package python3.8-pip

and running

python3.8 -m pip install [package]

gives

no module named pip

I can’t run sudo apt install python3-pip because it installs pip for Python 3.6

Answer

Install pip the official way:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3.8 get-pip.py

made 3.8 my default Python version

It depends on how you did that, but it might break something in your OS. For example some packages on Ubuntu 18.04 might depend on python being python2.7 or python3 being python3.6 with some pip packages preinstalled.