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I was trying to install chatterbot which has a dependency on PyYAML=3.12. In my Ubuntu machine installed PyYAML version is 3.11. So I used the following command to upgrade PyYAML:
sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade PyYAML
But it gives the following error:
Cannot uninstall 'PyYAML'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.
My pip3 version is 10.0.0.
How to resolve this?
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ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'PyYAML'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.
To check which version of pyyaml is installed, use pip show pyyaml or pip3 show pyyaml in your CMD/Powershell (Windows), or terminal (macOS/Linux/Ubuntu) to obtain the output major.
Try using the --ignore-installed flag:
sudo -H pip3 install --ignore-installed PyYAML
This works because to upgrade a package, pip first uninstalls the old version, then installs the new version. It is the uninstall step that fails for distutils packages. With the --ignore-installed flag, the uninstall step is skipped and the new version is simply installed on top of the old one.
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You can try this:
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