diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 164fe84904947bfc3cf71132b5fba04744460b26..ea39efd00bb5c0a7deb3f6d57083d83a673b883c 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ RUN localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
 # specify sphinx version as 1.5.6 and remove -U option for [pip install -U
 # sphinx-rtd-theme] since -U option will cause sphinx being updated to newest
 # version(1.7.1 for now), which causes building documentation failed.
-RUN pip install --upgrade pip==9.0.3 && \
+RUN easy_install -U pip && \
     pip install -U wheel && \
     pip install -U docopt PyYAML sphinx==1.5.6 && \
     pip install sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.9 recommonmark
diff --git a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
index 7e00bd38487902227c3b4521db20cdbe314059be..92b8b90880bc78dbc281a959a7472c2822f76fc3 100755
--- a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
+++ b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ EOF
     # run paddle version to install python packages first
     RUN apt-get update &&\
         ${NCCL_DEPS}\
-        apt-get install -y wget python-pip dmidecode python-tk && pip install -U pip==9.0.3 && \
+        apt-get install -y wget python-pip dmidecode python-tk && easy_install -U pip && \
         pip install /*.whl; apt-get install -f -y && \
         apt-get clean -y && \
         rm -f /*.whl && \
diff --git a/paddle/scripts/paddle_build.sh b/paddle/scripts/paddle_build.sh
index e5af42ed5703f2b277cb6e8b5c81b49656107ecf..3efca04a5c60acdd2267f867a57b90d35cefb002 100755
--- a/paddle/scripts/paddle_build.sh
+++ b/paddle/scripts/paddle_build.sh
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ EOF
     # run paddle version to install python packages first
     RUN apt-get update &&\
         ${NCCL_DEPS}\
-        apt-get install -y wget python-pip dmidecode python-tk && pip install -U pip==9.0.3 && \
+        apt-get install -y wget python-pip dmidecode python-tk && easy_install -U pip && \
         pip install /*.whl; apt-get install -f -y && \
         apt-get clean -y && \
         rm -f /*.whl && \