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Can't uninstall projects installed with "pip install -e"

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After installing a project (I’ve tried two) with pip install -e . and then running pip uninstall <project>, the egg-link remains in place and the pth remains altered.

If instead pip install -e <path/to/project> is used to install, pip uninstall <project> returns Can't uninstall '<project>'. No files were found to uninstall.

pip: 1.5.5 python: 2.7.6

pip installed on Ubuntu 14.04 via python-pip package.

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Created 9 years ago
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Comments:19 (3 by maintainers)

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ethanabrookscommented, Sep 15, 2017

Solution: the advice from this stackoverflow question worked for me.

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avinash-mishracommented, Oct 30, 2018

The solution that worked for me. It will create a .egg-info file inside the directory where we run pip install -e . Go to that directory and delete .egg-info file. Then cross check with pip list

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