Cannot uninstall chardet

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I've been trying to uninstall chardet using pip, but I get the following error:

"Cannot uninstall 'chardet'. 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."

My pip version is 10.0.0, python 2.7.14, Ubuntu 14.04.

Remove files/directories manually. Or see https://stackoverflow.com/a/49911928/7976758 — phd, Apr 19 '18 at 14:58
Does this answer your question? [pip cannot uninstall : "It is a distutils installed project"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53807511/pip-cannot-uninstall-package-it-is-a-distutils-installed-project) — anthony sottile, Aug 23 '20 at 19:29

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '18 at 15:19

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The location of chardet can be determined by running the following commands in the python console.

>>> import chardet
>>> print chardet.__file__
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chardet/__init__.pyc

Then just manually remove the following folders/*.egg-info file.

rm /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chardet-<your-version>.egg-info
rm -r /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chardet

answered Apr 20 '18 at 15:19

Moharnab Saikia

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@LadenkovVladislav What's the issue with seaborn? – Franck Dernoncourt Sep 23 '18 at 07:06
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deleting files managed by your operating system package manager is not a good idea -- this is how you break your system – anthony sottile Aug 23 '20 at 19:28

Cannot uninstall chardet

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