Find all packages installed with easy install pip

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Is there a way to find all Python PyPI packages that were installed with easy install or pip   I mean  excluding everything that was is installed with the distributions tools  in this case apt-get on Debian

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If Debian behaves like recent Ubuntu versions regarding pip install default target, it's dead easy: it installs to /usr/local/lib/ instead of /usr/lib (apt default target). Check https://askubuntu.com/questions/173323/how-do-i-detect-and-remove-python-packages-installed-via-pip/259747#259747

I am an ArchLinux user and as I experimented with pip I met this same problem. Here's how I solved it in Arch.

find /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages -maxdepth 2 -name __init__.py | xargs pacman -Qo | grep 'No package'

Key here is /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages, which is the directory pip installs to, YMMV. pacman -Qo is how Arch's pac kage man ager checks for ownership of the file. No package is part of the return it gives when no package owns the file: error: No package owns $FILENAME. Tricky workaround: I'm querying about __init__.py because pacman -Qo is a little bit ignorant when it comes to directories :(

In order to do it for other distros, you have to find out where pip installs stuff (just sudo pip install something), how to query ownership of a file (Debian/Ubuntu method is dpkg -S) and what is the "no package owns that path" return (Debian/Ubuntu is no path found matching pattern). Debian/Ubuntu users, beware: dpkg -S will fail if you give it a symbolic link. Just resolve it first by using realpath. Like this:

find /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages -maxdepth 2 -name __init__.py | xargs realpath | xargs dpkg -S 2>&1 | grep 'no path found'

Fedora users can try (thanks @eddygeek):

find /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages -maxdepth 2 -name __init__.py | xargs rpm -qf | grep 'not owned by any package'

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The below is a little slow  but it gives a nicely formatted list of packages that pip is aware of   That is to say  not all of them were installed  by  pip  but all of them should be able to be upgraded by pip     pip search     egrep -B1  INSTALLED LATEST    The reason it is slow is that it lists the contents of the entire pypi repo   I filed a ticket suggesting pip list provide similar functionality but more efficiently    Sample output   restricted the search to a subset instead of     for all      pip search selenium   egrep -B1  INSTALLED LATEST   selenium                  - Python bindings for Selenium   INSTALLED  2 24 0   LATEST     2 25 0 -- robotframework-selenium2library - Web testing library for Robot Framework   INSTALLED  1 0 1  latest

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As  almenon pointed out  this no longer works and it is not the supported way to get package information in your code  The following raises an exception   import pip installed packages   dict   package project name  package version                              for package in pip get installed distributions       To accomplish this  you can import pkg resources  Here s an example   import pkg resources installed packages   dict   package project name  package version                             for package in pkg resources working set     I m on v3 6 5

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Start with     pip list   To list all packages  Once you found the package you want  use     pip show  lt package-name gt    This will show you details about this package  including its folder  You can skip the first part if you already know the package name  Click here for more information on pip show and here for more information on pip list   Example     pip show jupyter Name  jupyter Version  1 0 0 Summary  Jupyter metapackage  Install all the Jupyter components in one go  Home-page  http   jupyter org Author  Jupyter Development Team Author-email  jupyter googlegroups org License  BSD Location   usr local lib python2 7 site-packages Requires  ipywidgets  nbconvert  notebook  jupyter-console  qtconsole  ipykernel

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At least for Ubuntu  maybe also others  works this  inspired by a previous post in this thread    printf  Installed with pip    pip list 2 gt  dev null   gawk   print  1      while read  do pip show    REPLY   2 gt  dev null   grep  Location   usr local lib python2 7 dist-packages   gt  dev null  if          0     then printf     REPLY    fi  done  echo

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Take note that if you have multiple versions of Python installed on your computer  you may have a few versions of pip associated with each    Depending on your associations  you might need to be very cautious of what pip command you use    pip3 list    Worked for me  where I m running Python3 4  Simply using pip list returned the error The program  pip  is currently not installed  You can install it by typing  sudo apt-get install python-pip

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pip list  options  You can see the complete reference here

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pip get installed distributions   will give a list of installed packages  import pip from os path import join  for package in pip get installed distributions        print package location    you can exclude packages that s in  usr XXX     print join package location  package  get metadata  top level txt       root directory of this package

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pip freeze will output a list of installed packages and their versions  It also allows you to write those packages to a file that can later be used to set up a new environment   https   pip pypa io en stable reference pip freeze  pip-freeze

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Here is the one-liner for fedora or other rpm distros  based on  barraponto tips    find  usr lib python2 7 site-packages -maxdepth 2 -name   init   py   xargs rpm -qf   grep  not owned by any package    Append this to the previous command to get cleaner output      sed -r  s      w         1

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Newer versions of pip have the ability to do what the OP wants via pip list -l or pip freeze -l  --list   On Debian  at least  the man page doesn t make this clear  and I only discovered it - under the assumption that the feature must exist - with pip list --help   There are recent comments that suggest this feature is not obvious in either the documentation or the existing answers  although hinted at by some   so I thought I should post  I would have preferred to do so as a comment  but I don t have the reputation points

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If you use the Anaconda python distribution  you can use the conda list command to see what was installed by what method   user pc     conda list   packages in environment at  anaconda3      Name                    Version                   Build  Channel  ipyw jlab nb ext conf    0 1 0            py36h2fc01ae 0 alabaster                 0 7 10           py36h174008c 0 amqp                      2 2 2                      lt pip gt  anaconda                  5 1 0                    py36 2 anaconda-client           1 6 9                    py36 0   To grab the entries installed by pip  including possibly pip itself    user pc     conda list   grep   lt pip amqp                      2 2 2                      lt pip gt  astroid                   1 6 2                      lt pip gt  billiard                  3 5 0 3                    lt pip gt  blinker                   1 4                        lt pip gt  ez-setup                  0 9                        lt pip gt  feedgenerator             1 9                        lt pip gt    Of course you probably want to just select the first column  which you can do with  excluding pip if needed    user pc     conda list   awk   3    pip   if   1     pip   print  1   amqp         astroid billiard blinker ez-setup feedgenerator    Finally you can grab these values and pip uninstall all of them using the following   user pc     conda list   awk   3    pip   if   1     pip   print  1     xargs pip uninstall -y   Note the use of the -y flag for the pip uninstall to avoid having to give confirmation to delete

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If anyone is wondering you can use the  pip show  command   pip show  options   lt package gt    This will list the install directory of the given package

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pip freeze lists all installed packages even if not by pip easy install  On CentOs Redhat a package installed through rpm is found

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Get all file folder names in site-packages   and dist-packages  if it exists   and use your package manager to strip the ones that were installed via package

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For those who don t have pip installed  I found this quick script on github  works with Python 2 7 13      import pkg resources distros   pkg resources AvailableDistributions   for key in distros    print distros key

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As of version 1 3 of pip you can now use pip list  It has some useful options including the ability to show outdated packages  Here s the documentation  https   pip pypa io en latest reference pip list

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Adding to  Paul Woolcock s answer   pip freeze  gt  requirements txt   will create a requirements file with all installed packages along with the installed version numbers in the  active environment at the current location  Running  pip install -r requirements txt   will install the packages specified in the requirements file

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