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this is my setup.py file for installing my python program, after the installation using python3 setup.py install an entry to my program was created named testmain , when i did pip3 freeze it showed abc==0.1 in its output ,so i uninstalled it using pip3 with pip3 uninstall abc , though the packages were uninstalled but there still existed the entry testmain on my path , is there a way that pip3 also removes this entry during the uninstall or any other way that i can cleanly uninstall my programs under same scenario ?
from setuptools import setup
setup(name='abc',
version='0.1',
description='test',
url='http://github.com/rjdp',
author='rajdeep',
author_email='[email protected]',
license='MIT',
packages=['cli'],
install_requires=[
'cement',
],
entry_points = {
'console_scripts': ['testmain=cli.abc:main'],
},
zip_safe=False)
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Open a terminal window. To uninstall, or remove, a package use the command '$PIP uninstall <package-name>'.
To remove all packages installed by pip with Python, we run pip uninstall . to run pip freeze to get the list of packages installed. And then we pipe that to xargs pip uninstall -y to remove all the packages listed by pip freeze with pip uninstall . We use the -y to remove everything without needing confirmation.
You have two options: Use another package manager such as conda . This will only work if the package was originally installed with that package manager. Delete the package manually with File Explorer or the command-line.
Instead of python3 setup.py install use:
pip3 install .
then
pip3 uninstall abc
This will remove testmain.
I had the same question today and spent the entire morning trying to figure out why the script wouldn't uninstall. Nothing worked until I saw Ramana's answer here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/38692/how-does-one-remove-applications-installed-through-python-setup-py-install
"You should always install Python apps with "pip". pip supports uninstall option." and the example in the commment on how local path is supported.
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