How to delete a Python package

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>  On 2006-07-12, Nick Vatamaniuc <vatamane at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As a rule,  if you use a Linux distribution, you should just install
> > the package and then remove the package using the package manager.
> 
>  That's fine except a lot of python packages aren't available in
>  any of the various Linux distro package formats.

distutils has a build rpm option which works, eg

  python setup.py bdist_rpm

I usually run debian systems, so I then run alien on the resulting rpm
to turn it into a .deb.

I always install python packages like this - it has worked every time
so far!

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