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I installed it in my dev project. I would like to remove it and any trace of it in my database and my django app, not to mention my python install. I found it didn't quite do what I needed, but that's another topic, and I'm moving to South.

Can I just delete the evolution tables in my django db, and remove it from the app settings? Or is there more to it?

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  • How exactly did you install it? – Davor Lucic May 15 '10 at 02:40
  • The standard way, python setup.py intall. And then settings.py syncdb. – Rhubarb May 15 '10 at 02:57
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    Then you can delete the `evolution` tables, remove it from installed apps, and delete it from your site packages (or where ever it is on python path). – Davor Lucic May 15 '10 at 03:10
  • I tried that, and then ran syncdb and the evolution tables were made again. I can't find how it's doing this, I see no reference to evolution anywhere, I grepped everything. – Rhubarb May 15 '10 at 15:24
  • Well, stale .pyc files come to mind, but other then that it is very puzzling indeed. Only removing it from INSTALLED_APPS should be enough to avoid creating tables for app. – Davor Lucic May 15 '10 at 15:28
  • I just tried removing all the pyc files for settings and models, and it still happens. Don't know what to say. I'm increasingly finding django somewhat flaky. – Rhubarb May 15 '10 at 16:37
  • I figured it out, my iPython session had cached the settings – Rhubarb May 15 '10 at 23:58

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Part 1: Remove the python egg (example when installed with easy-install and python 2.5)

bash$ locate easy-install.pth
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/easy-install.pth

bash$ nano /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/easy-install.pth

and delete the egg if it is there (was not there in my case).

bash$ easy_install -m django-evolution

see where the egg was installed, and finally remove it:

bash$ rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_evolution-0.6.1-py2.5.egg

Part 2: remove django_evolution from django

delete django_evolution from INSTALLED_APPS, i.e., open your settings.py and delete the line with 'django_evolution'

Part 3: clean up DB

To delete the django_evolution table:

Log in to your db (example with mysql):

bash$ mysql -u username -p

mysql> use XXX_django; # replace XXX_django by your django database (you can use "show databases;" to see which one is yours)
mysql> drop table django_evolution;
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