How to remove pip package after deleting it manually
- Go to the
site-packages
directory where pip is installing your packages. - You should see the egg file that corresponds to the package you want to uninstall. Delete the egg file (or, to be on the safe side, move it to a different directory).
- Do the same with the package files for the package you want to delete (in this case, the
psycopg2
directory). pip install YOUR-PACKAGE
packages installed using pip can be uninstalled completely using
pip uninstall <package>
refrence link
pip uninstall
is likely to fail if the package is installed using python setup.py install
as they do not leave behind metadata to determine what files were installed.
packages still show up in pip list
if their paths(.pth file) still exist in your site-packages or dist-packages folder. You'll need to remove them as well in case you're removing using rm -rf