I have installed a python package with python setup.py install
.
How do I uninstall it?
Uninstalling. On Windows, if Setuptools was installed using an .exe or . msi installer, simply use the uninstall feature of “Add/Remove Programs” in the Control Panel.
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 < 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:
>>> import my_module >>> my_module.__file__ None
Once deleted, Python shows:
>>> import my_module Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'my_module'
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