How do I manually uninstall setuptools (installed by egg)?

Chris Rebert clp at rebertia.com
Tue Dec 9 22:04:22 EST 2008


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:49 PM,  <excord80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ubuntu, I accidentally manually installed setuptools
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.6c9 (by running the .egg file
> as a shell script via sudo), and now realize I should just be using
> apt to take care of my system Python packages.

Really, why? setuptools has more Python packages/programs available
and updates faster than Debian.
It's also likely that some of the Debian Python packages are installed
using setuptools anyway.
So, why do you think apt and not setuptools is The Right Way(tm)?

Cheers,
Chris

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