pip-sync

[Larry Martell]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 11:08 AM Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to set up and maintain a venv with pip-sync. On my bare
> metal I have the apparmor python package installed, but it is not
> installed in my venv and it's not in my requirements file. When I run
> pip-sync I get:
>
> Found existing installation: apparmor 2.13.3
> ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'apparmor'. It is a distutils installed
> project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to
> it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.
>
> Since it's not installed in the venv why does it want to uninstall it?

Found out what was going on - I had pip-sync installed on the bare
metal and when I ran it from within the venv it was picking that one
up, which then looked at packages outside the venv. After I
uninstalled it from the bare metal it was then working as expected.