[Numpy-discussion] Installed NumPy and MatPlotLib in the Wrong Order. How uninstall MPL?

[Christoph Gohlke]

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 at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Watson
>> <sierra_mtnview at 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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