Uninstalling Eggs

Mike Driscoll kyosohma at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 21:50:54 EDT 2008


On Mar 9, 8:30 am, PB <PeterBrad... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I just installed the Shove module with the monumentally crap
> setuptools. Whilst the install succeeded, imports now trigger errors,
> so clearly it did not install correctly. Can I simply delete the .egg
> file from my lib/python2.3/site-packages/ directory?
>
> Cheers,

Deleting the shove-egg folder is definitely the recommended and
easiest way I know of to "uninstall" an egg. I've used it successfully
before.

Mike



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