How to uninstall editable packages with pip (installed with -e)

pip uninstallation
Michael_Scharf picture Michael_Scharf · Jun 27, 2013 · Viewed 30.2k times · Source

I have installed some packages with -e

> pip install -e git+https://github.com/eventray/horus.git@2ce62c802ef5237be1c6b1a91dbf115ec284a619#egg=horus-dev

I with pip freeze I see

> pip freeze
...
-e git+https://github.com/eventray/horus.git@2ce62c802ef5237be1c6b1a91dbf115ec284a619#egg=horus-dev
...

when I try to uninstall the packages I get errors:

> pip uninstall horus-dev
Cannot uninstall requirement horus-dev, not installed

> pip uninstall horus
Cannot uninstall requirement horus, not installed

How do I uninstall such a package?

Answer

glarrain picture glarrain · Sep 16, 2013

At {virtualenv}/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ (if not using virtualenv then {system_dir}/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/)

  • remove the egg file (e.g. distribute-0.6.34-py2.7.egg) if there is any
  • from file easy-install.pth, remove the corresponding line (it should be a path to the source directory or of an egg file).

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