What is the use of -U in the pip install command?

What is the use of -U in this install command?

pip install -U scikit-learn

1 Answer

This option upgrades all packages. From man pip/INSTALL OPTIONS:

-U, --upgrade Upgrade all packages to the newest available version. This process is recursive regardless of whether a dependency is already satisfied.

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