Could you try the following?
apt-get purge python-pip
wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
pip install slowaes
Ran into error on last line, pip isn't in the path.
python get-pip.py
Downloading/unpacking pip
Downloading pip-1.5.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.2MB): 1.2MB downloaded
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip
Cleaning up...
a-man # pip install slowaes
bash: /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory
So...
# which pip
/usr/local/bin/pip
a-man # /usr/local/bin/pip install slowaes
Downloading/unpacking slowaes
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement slowaes (from versions: 0.1a1)
Cleaning up...
No distributions matching the version for slowaes
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log
a-man #