[Distutils] Uninstall

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Aug 27 01:46:03 CEST 2007


At 12:15 AM 8/27/2007 +0100, Martin Aspeli wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Someone asked me today, how to uninstall a package that was installed
>with easy_install. The best I could come up with was, remove the .egg
>file/directory from site-packages and remove the corresponding line from
>easy_install.pth. That's pretty lame and error prone.
>
>Is there a better way?

Somewhat better:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#uninstalling-packages



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