Unable to uninstall AWS CLI : Cannot uninstall requirement awscli, not installed

Question

I was trying to install AWS CLI on mac but was facing some challenges as aws command was unable to parse the credential file. So I decided to re-install the whole stuff but facing some issues here again.

I am trying pip uninstall awscli which says

Cannot uninstall requirement awscli, not installed

So, i try pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user which gives me this:

    You are using pip version 6.0.8, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Requirement already up-to-date: awscli in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages
Requirement already up-to-date: rsa<=3.5.0,>=3.1.2 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: docutils>=0.10 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: PyYAML<=3.12,>=3.10 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: colorama<=0.3.7,>=0.2.5 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: botocore==1.8.29 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: s3transfer<0.2.0,>=0.1.12 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: pyasn1>=0.1.3 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from rsa<=3.5.0,>=3.1.2->awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: python-dateutil<3.0.0,>=2.1 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from botocore==1.8.29->awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: jmespath<1.0.0,>=0.7.1 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from botocore==1.8.29->awscli)
Requirement already up-to-date: six>=1.5 in ./Library/Python/3.5/lib/python/site-packages (from python-dateutil<3.0.0,>=2.1->botocore==1.8.29->awscli)

Not sure what to do.

Answer 1

You run pip3 install awscli but pip uninstall awscli. Shouldn't it be pip3 uninstall awscli?

Answer 2

I had a similar issue.

And I used the following command to fix it.

pip3 install --no-cache-dir awscli==1.14.39