How to uninstall pip on OSX?
I ran the following commands:
easy_install pip
sudo pip install setuptools --no-use-wheel --upgrade
How do I reverse the two commands to get my python back to its original state in OSX? (removing pip as part of it)
Solution 1:
The first thing you should try is:
sudo pip uninstall pip
On many environments that doesn't work. So given the lack of info on that problem, I ended up removing pip manually from /usr/local/bin.
Solution 2:
In my case I ran the following command and it worked (not that I was expecting it to):
sudo pip uninstall pip
Which resulted in:
Uninstalling pip-6.1.1:
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.1.1.dist-info/DESCRIPTION.rst
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.1.1.dist-info/METADATA
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.1.1.dist-info/RECORD
<and all the other stuff>
...
/usr/local/bin/pip
/usr/local/bin/pip2
/usr/local/bin/pip2.7
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled pip-6.1.1
Solution 3:
In order to completely remove pip, I believe you have to delete its files from all Python versions on your computer. For me, they are here:
cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/
cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/bin/
You may need to remove the files or the directories located at these file-paths (and more, depending on the number of versions of Python you have installed).
Edit: to find all versions of pip on your machine, use:
find / -name pip 2>/dev/null
, which starts at its highest level (hence the /
) and hides all error messages (that's what 2>/dev/null
does). This is my output:
$ find / -name pip 2>/dev/null
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/pip
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/bin/pip
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/pip
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.1/bin/pip
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg/pip
Solution 4:
Aditionally to the answer from @srk, you should uninstall package setuptools
:
python -m pip uninstall pip setuptools
If you want to uninstall all other packages first, this answer has some hints: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11250821/265954
Note: before you use the commands from that answer, please carefully read the comments about side effects and how to avoid uninstalling pip
and setuptools
too early. E.g. pip freeze | grep -v "^-e" | grep -v "^(setuptools|pip)" | xargs pip uninstall -y