How do you uninstall the package manager "pip", if installed from source?
pip uninstall pip
will work
That way you haven't installed pip, you installed just the easy_install
i.e. setuptools
.
First you should remove all the packages you installed with easy_install
using (see uninstall):
easy_install -m PackageName
This includes pip
if you installed it using easy_install pip
.
After this you remove the setuptools
following the instructions from here:
If setuptools package is found in your global site-packages directory, you may safely remove the following file/directory:
setuptools-*.egg
If setuptools is installed in some other location such as the user site directory (eg: ~/.local, ~/Library/Python or %APPDATA%), then you may safely remove the following files:
pkg_resources.py
easy_install.py
setuptools/
setuptools-*.egg-info/
If you installed pip like this:
- sudo apt install python-pip
- sudo apt install python3-pip
Uninstall them like this:
- sudo apt remove python-pip
- sudo apt remove python3-pip
I was using above command but it was not working. This command worked for me:
python -m pip uninstall pip setuptools