Installed NumPy and MatPlotLib in the Wrong Order. How uninstall MPL?
See Subject. I'm working in IDLE in Win7. It seems to me MPL gets stuck in site-packages under C:\Python25. Maybe this is as simple as deleting the entry? Well, yes there's a MPL folder under site-packages and an info MPL file of 540 bytes. There are also pylab.py, pyc,and py0 files under site. What to do next? -- My life in two words. "Interrupted Projects." -- WTW (quote originator)
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
See Subject.
I'm working in IDLE in Win7. It seems to me MPL gets stuck in site-packages under C:\Python25. Maybe this is as simple as deleting the entry?
What does it mean that MPL gets stuck? what kind of stuck? (My experience is only windowsXP not Win7) Often I just delete all directories and files for a package. However, if the package has been installed with an installer and not with easy_install or setup.py, there might be a removexxx, (removematplotlib) under/in the Python25 directory (I have Removematplotlib.exe for python24 but not for 25) and it might also be in the windows registry, try Add/Remove Programs or whatever the Win7 equivalent is. I just checked my Add/Remove Programs and I have several entries under python 2.5 that are orphans because I deleted the directories but didn't uninstall through an uninstaller, but again I see an entry for matplotlib only for python 2.4, so maybe matplotlib doesn't pollute the windows registry anymore. If you don't find any matplotlib uninstall (as in my case for Py2.5), you can just delete all files and directories in site-packages. Josef
Well, yes there's a MPL folder under site-packages and an info MPL file of 540 bytes. There are also pylab.py, pyc,and py0 files under site. What to do next?
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stuck = placed. I'm pretty sure I used an msi file. I've brought this topic up in 3 forums where I would have thought people knew the answer. Yours is the first answer. I would have guessed that anyone dealing libraries would have known the answer. Nor have I found anything in two Python books I've used. I think I'll look at them again. Google didn't even show anything. Thanks for the response. I'll try to clear manually the locations we've mentioned. On 2/5/2010 9:01 PM, josef.pktd@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
See Subject.
I'm working in IDLE in Win7. It seems to me MPL gets stuck in site-packages under C:\Python25. Maybe this is as simple as deleting the entry?
What does it mean that MPL gets stuck? what kind of stuck?
(My experience is only windowsXP not Win7)
Often I just delete all directories and files for a package. However, if the package has been installed with an installer and not with easy_install or setup.py, there might be a removexxx, (removematplotlib) under/in the Python25 directory (I have Removematplotlib.exe for python24 but not for 25) and it might also be in the windows registry, try Add/Remove Programs or whatever the Win7 equivalent is.
I just checked my Add/Remove Programs and I have several entries under python 2.5 that are orphans because I deleted the directories but didn't uninstall through an uninstaller, but again I see an entry for matplotlib only for python 2.4, so maybe matplotlib doesn't pollute the windows registry anymore.
If you don't find any matplotlib uninstall (as in my case for Py2.5), you can just delete all files and directories in site-packages.
Josef
Well, yes there's a MPL folder under site-packages and an info MPL file of 540 bytes. There are also pylab.py, pyc,and py0 files under site. What to do next?
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You should be able to have Matplotlib in Python 2.5 and in Python 2.6, no problem. But you need to get the correct installer. There are separate installers for different Pythons. Alan Isaac
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Alan G Isaac <aisaac@american.edu> wrote:
You should be able to have Matplotlib in Python 2.5 and in Python 2.6, no problem.
But you need to get the correct installer. There are separate installers for different Pythons.
I don't know if things have changed, but long ago when I was using windows more often I found it best to delete old installations of python when moving up to later versions. Chuck
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Alan G Isaac <aisaac@american.edu> wrote:
You should be able to have Matplotlib in Python 2.5 and in Python 2.6, no problem.
But you need to get the correct installer. There are separate installers for different Pythons.
I don't know if things have changed, but long ago when I was using windows more often I found it best to delete old installations of python when moving up to later versions.
I never had any problems on winXP with both python 2.4 and 2.5 installed. It's a bit of work to change all environment and path settings to a new python version by hand. Someone wrote a python script that updates all path and registry settings automatically. (I don't remember on which blog I saw it.) Josef
Chuck
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On 2/6/2010 9:02 AM, Charles R Harris wrote:
I don't know if things have changed, but long ago when I was using windows more often I found it best to delete old installations of python when moving up to later versions.
I have had multiple versions running side by side for years, with never a problem. (I always use the official installers.) Well ok, one problem... By default the last Python you install becomes your system Python, so you need to pay attention to that. But you can always reset that. Do you recall what kinds of problems you ran into? fwiw, Alan Isaac
All the official matplotlib installers on sourceforge are bdist_wininst executables, not msi. The installer for Python 2.5 was built with Python 2.5 itself, which does not know about Windows user account control (UAC). Unless you specifically run the installer as administrator, the uninstall registry settings can not be created. I also replied to you on matplotlib-users on how to manually remove matplotlib. Christoph On 2/6/2010 3:43 AM, Wayne Watson wrote:
stuck = placed.
I'm pretty sure I used an msi file. I've brought this topic up in 3 forums where I would have thought people knew the answer. Yours is the first answer. I would have guessed that anyone dealing libraries would have known the answer. Nor have I found anything in two Python books I've used. I think I'll look at them again. Google didn't even show anything.
Thanks for the response. I'll try to clear manually the locations we've mentioned.
On 2/5/2010 9:01 PM, josef.pktd@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
See Subject.
I'm working in IDLE in Win7. It seems to me MPL gets stuck in site-packages under C:\Python25. Maybe this is as simple as deleting the entry?
What does it mean that MPL gets stuck? what kind of stuck?
(My experience is only windowsXP not Win7)
Often I just delete all directories and files for a package. However, if the package has been installed with an installer and not with easy_install or setup.py, there might be a removexxx, (removematplotlib) under/in the Python25 directory (I have Removematplotlib.exe for python24 but not for 25) and it might also be in the windows registry, try Add/Remove Programs or whatever the Win7 equivalent is.
I just checked my Add/Remove Programs and I have several entries under python 2.5 that are orphans because I deleted the directories but didn't uninstall through an uninstaller, but again I see an entry for matplotlib only for python 2.4, so maybe matplotlib doesn't pollute the windows registry anymore.
If you don't find any matplotlib uninstall (as in my case for Py2.5), you can just delete all files and directories in site-packages.
Josef
Well, yes there's a MPL folder under site-packages and an info MPL file of 540 bytes. There are also pylab.py, pyc,and py0 files under site. What to do next?
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