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Uninstall from pip --user install fails (sometimes)

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce:

pip install --user PACKAGENAME
pip uninstall PACKAGENAME (no --user)

What should happen:

Package is installed and uninstalled.

What happens instead:

Uninstall fails with Can't uninstall 'PACKAGE'. No files were found to uninstall.

Notes:

This is not the case with all packages. I can’t determine if the issue is with the packages or pip. I know that in all cases I have encountered .local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PACKAGE-VERSION-py2.7.egg-info/installed-files.txt exists.

Examples of failing packages include: https://github.com/berdario/pew/issues/39 and https://github.com/hayd/pep8radius/issues/77 but, for example, youtube-dl works.

This is running pip 1.5.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

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dstufftcommented, Mar 22, 2017

This appears to not be a problem now, if you’re still having this issue please reopen this ticket or open a new one with reproduction steps.

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foldagercommented, May 24, 2017

This is still a problem on a Debian system, with debian distributed packages. I’m not administrating the system, and I just wanted to update my version of numpy. There exists a quite old version of numpy in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

I run the following

pip install --user --upgrade numpy
pip uninstall numpy

The first command installs numpy, but it is not available in python, as the Debian packages precedes user packages in sys.path. The only non-sudo workaround i found is to modify sys.path inside each python script.

The next command fails as it tries to uninstall numpy from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

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