<!-- Hi there! Thank you for discovering and submitting an issue with our documentation. Before you submit this; let's make sure of a few things. Please make sure the following boxes are ticked if they are correct. If not, please try and fulfill these first. --> <!-- Checked checkbox should look like this: [x] --> - [x] I have searched the [issues](https://github.com/sdispater/poetry/issues) of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate. ## Issue <!-- Now feel free to write your issue, but please be descriptive! Thanks again 🙌 ❤️ --> My understanding is that pip is a system requirement for poetry. See my comment here of poetry failing to work without pip: https://github.com/sdispater/poetry/issues/612#issuecomment-501652698 The [current system requirements ](https://poetry.eustace.io/docs/#system-requirements) only list Python as a system requirement. Although the need for pip might seem obvious given poetry installs Python packages, I believe it should be explicitly listed as a requirement. Although many standard Python installations come with Pip, installing Python 2 from source does not (I think this has changed with Python 3). I don't think it should be assumed that a Python installation being present on a machine means a pip installation will be too. At least not until Python 2 is officially unsupported (I know it's not long! Using Python 2 was not my choice.). Do let me know if I've misunderstood anything.