How to remove pip package after deleting it manually

Question

I deleted a pip package with rm -rf command thinking that the package will be removed  Now the package has been deleted but it still shows up in pip list and I m unable to remove it with pip uninstall nor can I update with pip install --upgrade    I d like to remove it completely  Can anyone please tell me how   EDIT  The package is psycopg2   If I try to uninstall    hammad hammad-P5QL-E    pip uninstall psycopg2 Can t uninstall  psycopg2   No files were found to uninstall    This is the directory in which psycopg2 was located  usr lib python2 7 dist-packagesand I rm -rf  d it from the same directory   TIA

User · Answer

Go to the site-packages directory where pip is installing your packages  You should see the egg file that corresponds to the package you want to uninstall   Delete the egg file  or  to be on the safe side  move it to a different directory   Do the same with the package files for the package you want to delete  in this case  the psycopg2 directory   pip install YOUR-PACKAGE

User · Answer

packages installed using pip can be uninstalled completely using  pip uninstall  lt package gt    refrence link  pip uninstall is likely to fail if the package is installed using python setup py install as they do not leave behind metadata to determine what files were installed   packages still show up in pip list if their paths  pth file  still exist in your site-packages or dist-packages folder  You ll need to remove them as well in case you re removing using rm -rf

User · Answer

I m sure there s a better way to achieve this and I would like to read about it  but a workaround I can think of is this    Install the package on a different machine  Copy the rm ed directory to the original machine  ssh  ftp  whatever   pip uninstall the package  should work again then     But  yes  I d also love to hear about a decent solution for this situation

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I met the same issue while experimenting with my own Python library and what I ve found out is that pip freeze will show you the library as installed if your current directory contains lib egg-info folder  And pip uninstall  lt lib gt  will give you the same error message    Make sure your current directory doesn t have any egg-info folders Check pip show  lt lib-name gt  to see the details about the location of the library  so you can remove files manually

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