[BangPypers] how to uninstall a package installed using easy_install

[B.Nanda Kishore]

+1 for pip

Regards,
Nandakishore


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 03 2011, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > I installed hg-git using easy_install. Now hg is b0rked. What is the
> > best way of uninstalling hg-git - I do not see any uninstall option in
> > easy_install.
>
> The only way is to to use easy_install -m to remove the entry from the
> .pth file and then manually delete the package. The details are here
>
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall?action=highlight&value=uninstall#uninstalling-packages
>
> However, you shouldn't be using easy_install at all. pip[1] has all but
> superseded it. It has an uninstall command and does most things more
> sanely than does easy_install.
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip
>
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