is there an uninstall equivalent to "pip install --user <package>"?

Question

Our sysadmin has installed a package, so I can remove my local copy. I'd like to say

pip uninstall --user <package>

but pip uninstall does not support --user. (At least pip 1.5.4 on Linux doesn't.) Is there an easy way to do this by hand, i.e., delete the directory that contains the package?

Answer 1

This was a known bug in pip

Ref : https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2094

As pip uninstall does not have --user option unlike pip install the question is if there even exists a way to uninstall package installed with pip install --user?

It is now cleared with a note

The packages mentioned in the ticket started working after they offered Wheel-based packages.