First, I have the habit of working in virtual environments. I create one and activate it:

Wassim@linux:~/private/labscripts$ python -m venv venv
Wassim@linux:~/private/labscripts$ ls
venv
Wassim@linux:~/private/labscripts$ source venv/bin/activate
((venv) ) Wassim@linux:~/private/labscripts$

I upgrade the pip package:

((venv) ) Wassim@linux:~/private/labscripts$ pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./venv/lib64/python3.12/site-packages (23.3.2)
Collecting pip
  Downloading pip-26.2.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.6 kB)
Downloading pip-26.2.1-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.8/1.8 MB 19.3 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pip
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 23.3.2
    Uninstalling pip-23.3.2:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-23.3.2
Successfully installed pip-26.2.1
((venv) ) Wassim@linux:~/private/labscripts$ 

I only have the pip package installed. I need pyEZ, Netmiko.