How do I remove packages installed with Python s easy install

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Python s easy install makes installing new packages extremely convenient  However  as far as I can tell  it doesn t implement the other common features of a dependency manager - listing and removing installed packages   What is the best way of finding out what s installed  and what is the preferred way of removing installed packages  Are there any files that need to be updated if I remove packages manually  e g  by rm  usr local lib python2 6 dist-packages my installed pkg egg or similar

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try    easy install -m  PACKAGE    then    rm -rf     python2 X site-packages  PACKAGE  egg

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This worked for me   It s similar to previous answers but the path to the packages is different    sudo easy install -m  sudo rm -rf  Library Python 2 7 site-packages  egg   Plaform   MacOS High Sierra version 10 13 3

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For me only deleting this file   easy-install pth  worked  rest pip install django  1 3 7

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All the info is in the other answers  but none summarizes both your requests or seem to make things needlessly complex    For your removal needs use   pip uninstall  lt package gt     install using easy install pip  For your  list installed packages  needs either use    pip freeze   Or   yolk -l   which can output more package details    Install via easy install yolk or pip install yolk

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I ran into the same problem on my MacOS X Leopard 10 6 blah   Solution is to make sure you re calling the MacPorts Python   sudo port install python26 sudo port install python select sudo python select python26 sudo port install py26-mysql   Hope this helps

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pip  an alternative to setuptools easy install  provides an  uninstall  command    Install pip according to the installation instructions     wget https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   python get-pip py   Then you can use pip uninstall to remove packages installed with easy install

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To list installed Python packages  you can use yolk -l  You ll need to use easy install yolk first though

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To uninstall an  egg you need to rm -rf the egg  it might be a directory  and remove the matching line from site-packages easy-install pth

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Official    instructions  http   peak telecommunity com DevCenter EasyInstall uninstalling-packages     If you have replaced a package with another version  then you can just delete the package s  you don t need by deleting the PackageName-versioninfo egg file or directory  found in the installation directory        If you want to delete the currently installed version of a package  or all versions of a package   you should first run   easy install -mxN PackageName       This will ensure that Python doesn t continue to search for a package you re planning to remove  After you ve done this  you can safely delete the  egg files or directories  along with any scripts you wish to remove

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If the problem is a serious-enough annoyance to you  you might consider virtualenv  It allows you to create an environment that encapsulates python libraries  You install packages there rather than in the global site-packages directory  Any scripts you run in that environment have access to those packages  and optionally  your global ones as well   I use this a lot when evaluating packages that I am not sure I want need to install globally  If you decide you don t need the package  it s easy enough to just blow that virtual environment away  It s pretty easy to use  Make a new env     gt virtualenv  path to your new ENV   virtual envt installs setuptools for you in the new environment  so you can do     gt ENV bin easy install   You can even create your own boostrap scripts that setup your new environment  So  with one command  you can create a new virtual env with  say  python 2 6  psycopg2 and django installed by default  you can can install an env-specific version of python if you want

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First you have to run this command     easy install -m  PACKAGE    It removes all dependencies of the package   Then remove egg file of that package     sudo rm -rf  usr local lib python2 X site-packages  PACKAGE  egg

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Came across this question  while trying to uninstall the many random Python packages installed over time   Using information from this thread  this is what I came up with   cat package list   xargs -n1 sudo pip uninstall -y   The package list is cleaned up  awk  from a pip freeze in a virtualenv   To remove almost all Python packages   yolk -l   cut -f 1 -d       grep -v  setuptools pip ETC      xargs -n1 pip uninstall -y

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There are several sources on the net suggesting a hack by reinstalling the package with the -m option and then just removing the  egg file in lib  and the binaries in bin   Also  discussion about this setuptools issue can be found on the python bug tracker as setuptools issue 21   Edit  Added the link to the python bugtracker

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