How to uninstall setuptools

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Roger Erens wrote:

> On my Ubuntu8.04 box I installed python-all and subsequently setuptools
> for both 2.4 and 2.5 interpreters. To make a clean upgrade to 8.10 I
> need to uninstall setuptools. Any hints for doing that?

It sounds as if you installed it using debian package management. Then you
can just deinstall with that (or better yet upgrade).

If you installed manually, it should suffice to rip
out /usr/lib/python2.*/site-packages/[setuptools*|easy-install*]
and /usr/bin/easy_install*.

Diez