python setup py uninstall

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I have installed a python package with python setup py install   How do I uninstall it

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Now python gives you the choice to install pip during the installation (I am on Windows, and at least python does so for Windows!). Considering you had chosen to install pip during installation of python (you don't actually have to choose because it is default), pip is already installed for you. Then, type in pip in command prompt, you should see a help come up. You can find necessary usage instructions there. E.g. pip list shows you the list of installed packages. You can use

pip uninstall package_name

to uninstall any package that you don't want anymore. Read more here (pip documentation).

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For me  the following mostly works   have pip installed  e g      easy install pip   Check  how is your installed package named from pip point of view     pip freeze   This shall list names of all packages  you have installed  and which were detected by pip   The name can be sometime long  then use just the name of the package being shown at the and after  egg   You can also in most cases ignore the version part  whatever follows    or -    Then uninstall the package     pip uninstall package name you have found   If it asks for confirmation about removing the package  then you are lucky guy and it will be removed   pip shall detect all packages  which were installed by pip  It shall also detect most of the packages installed via easy install or setup py  but this may in some rare cases fail   Here is real sample from my local test with package named ttr rdstmc on MS Windows     pip freeze  grep ttr ttr aws s3  0 1 1dev ttr aws utils s3  0 3 0 ttr utcutils  0 1 1dev    python setup py develop             Finished processing dependencies for ttr rdstmc  0 0 1dev    pip freeze  grep ttr ttr aws s3  0 1 1dev ttr aws utils s3  0 3 0 -e hg https   vlcinsky bitbucket org vlcinsky ttr rdstmc d61a9922920c508862602f7f39e496f7b99315f0 egg ttr rdstmc-dev ttr utcutils  0 1 1dev    pip uninstall ttr rdstmc Uninstalling ttr rdstmc    c  python27 lib site-packages ttr rdstmc egg-link Proceed  y n   y   Successfully uninstalled ttr rdstmc    pip freeze  grep ttr ttr aws s3  0 1 1dev ttr aws utils s3  0 3 0 ttr utcutils  0 1 1dev   Edit 2015-05-20  All what is written above still applies  anyway  there are small modifications available now   Install pip in python 2 7 9 and python 3 4  Recent python versions come with a package ensurepip allowing to install pip even when being offline     python -m ensurepip --upgrade  On some systems  like Debian Jessie  this is not available  to prevent breaking system python installation    Using grep or find  Examples above assume  you have grep installed  I had  at the time I had MS Windows on my machine  installed set of linux utilities  incl  grep   Alternatively  use native MS Windows find or simply ignore that filtering and find the name in a bit longer list of detected python packages

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I had run  python setup py install  at some point in the past accidentally in my global environment  and had much difficulty uninstalling  These solutions didn t help   pip uninstall   didn t work with  Can t uninstall  splunk-appinspect   No files were found to uninstall    sudo pip uninstall   didn t work  Cannot uninstall requirement splunk-appinspect  not installed   I tried uninstalling pip  deleting the pip cache  searching my hard drive for the package  etc      pip show   eventually led me to the solution  the  Location   was pointing to a directory  and renaming that directory caused the packaged to be removed from pip s list  I renamed the directory back  and it didn t reappear in pip s list  and now I can reinstall my package in a virtualenv

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Extending on what Martin said  recording the install output and a little bash scripting does the trick quite nicely   Here s what I do     for i in   less install record   sudo rm  i  done    And presto   Uninstalled

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Note  Avoid using python setup py install use pip install    You need to remove all files manually  and also undo any other stuff that installation did manually   If you don t know the list of all files  you can reinstall it with the --record option  and take a look at the list this produces   To record a list of installed files  you can use   python setup py install --record files txt   Once you want to uninstall you can use xargs to do the removal   xargs rm -rf  lt  files txt   Or if you re running Windows  use Powershell     Get-Content files txt   ForEach-Object  Remove-Item    -Recurse -Force    Then delete also the containing directory  e g   Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 3 7 lib python3 7 site-packages my module-0 1 egg  on macOS  It has no files  but Python will still import an empty module    gt  gt  gt  import my module  gt  gt  gt  my module   file   None   Once deleted  Python shows    gt  gt  gt  import my module Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  ModuleNotFoundError  No module named  my module

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The lazy way  simply uninstall from the Windows installation menu  if you re using Windows   or from the rpm command  provided you first re-install it after creating a distribution package   For example   python setup py bdist wininst dist foo-1 0 win32 exe     foo  being an example of course

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If you still have files that are supposed to be deleted after re-installing a package  make sure the folder build is also deleted  Therefore  assuming that pkg is the package you want to delete   rm -r   python3 -c  import pkg  print pkg   path   0             rm -rf build   Obove work out for python3 and delete the package and its   egg-info file

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The  1 answer has problems    Won t work on mac  If a file is installed which includes spaces or other special characters  the xargs command will fail  and delete any files directories which matched the individual words  the -r in rm -rf is unnecessary and at worst could delete things you don t want to    Instead  for unix-like   sudo python setup py install --record files txt   inspect files txt to make sure it looks ok  Then  tr   n    0   lt  files txt   xargs -0 sudo rm -f --   And for windows   python setup py bdist wininst dist foo-1 0 win32 exe   There are also unsolvable problems with uninstalling setup py install which won t bother you in a typical case  For a more complete answer  see this wiki page   https   ofswiki org wiki Uninstalling setup py install

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Probably you can do this as an alternative  -  1  Get the python version -   linux machine   python Python 2 4 3   1  Jun 18 2012  14 38 55     -  The above command gives you the current python Version which is 2 4 3  2  Get the installation directory of python -   linux machine   whereis python python   usr bin python  usr bin python2 4  usr lib python2 4  usr local bin python2 5  usr include python2 4  usr share man man1 python 1 gz   -  From above command you can get the installation directory which is -  usr lib python2 4 site-packages  3  From here you can remove the packages and python egg files   linux machine   cd  usr lib python2 4 site-packages  linux machine   rm -rf paramiko-1 12 0-py2 4 egg paramiko-1 7 7 1-py2 4 egg paramiko-1 9 0-py2 4 egg   This worked for me   And i was able to uninstall package which was troubling me

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First record the files you have installed  You can repeat this command  even if you have previously run setup py install   python setup py install --record files txt   When you want to uninstall you can just   sudo rm   cat files txt    This works because the rm command takes a whitespace-seperated list of files to delete and your installation record is just such a list

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At  virtualenv  lib python2 7 site-packages   if not using virtualenv then  system dir  lib python2 7 dist-packages     Remove the egg file  e g  distribute-0 6 34-py2 7 egg   If there is any from file easy-install pth  remove the corresponding line  it should be a path to the source directory or of an egg file

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Not exactly answering the question  but something that helps me every day    Install your packages with  pip install     This puts the package in  HOME  local  Uninstall with  pip uninstall  lt package name gt

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I had run python setup py install once in my PyCharm  it installs all the packages into my conda base environment  Later when I want to remove all these packages  pip uninstall does not work  I had to delete them from  anaconda3 lib python3 7 site-packages manually     So I don t see the reason why they use setup py instead of writing requirements txt file  The requirement file can be used to install packages in virtual environment and won t mess with system python packages

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Go to your python package directory and remove your  egg file  e g   In python 2 5 ubuntu    usr lib python2 5 site-packages   In python 2 6 ubuntu    usr local lib python2 6 dist-packages

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It might be better to remove related files by using bash to read commands  like the following   sudo python setup py install --record files txt sudo bash -c  cat files txt   xargs rm -rf

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I think you can open the setup py  locate the package name  and then ask pip to uninstall it   Assuming the name is available in a  METADATA  variable   pip uninstall   python -c  from setup import METADATA  print METADATA  name

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