Unable to Uninstall Program : Own by OS

I was trying to uninstall program using pip uninstall South and it give me following error

Not uninstalling South at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS

I'm in production machine and unable to fix this issue. What would be the soultion for this.

pip - 1.5.4, ununtu - 14.04

Solution 1:

I solved the problem with the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-virtualenv

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Solution 2:

The files are present in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, therefore uninstall with sudo rights.

sudo pip uninstall South

Solution 3:

I solved the issue by running:

sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/six-1.5.2.egg-info

(I found the command on this GitHub issue).

I was facing a similar error on Kubuntu 14.04 LTS x64:

f@f-Aurora-R4:~/ta/hw4/code$ sudo pip uninstall scipy
Not uninstalling scipy at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS
f@f-Aurora-R4:~/ta/hw4/code$ Not uninstalling scipy at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS