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While developing a package I installed it through pip install -e .

Now when I pip uninstall myPackage I get

Found existing installation: myPackage 0.1.2
Can't uninstall 'myPackage'. No files were found to uninstall.

with pip show myPackage I get:

Location: /mnt/home/aerijman/scripts/myPackage

I don't want to delete the path. How do I uninstall it?

Thank you

aerijman
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  • https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bpip%5D+uninstall+editable+package – phd Apr 02 '20 at 21:28
  • if you are interested in uninstall (packages in development/editable mode) try this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17346619/how-to-uninstall-editable-packages-with-pip-installed-with-e – Charlie Parker May 02 '20 at 16:22
  • did you try this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17346619/how-to-uninstall-editable-packages-with-pip-installed-with-e – Charlie Parker May 02 '20 at 16:23
  • the different options I know work sometimes are: `python setup.py develop -u`, `pip uninstall library`, `pip uninstall -e .` and `pip uninstall -r requirements.txt`. – Charlie Parker May 02 '20 at 16:24

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Assuming the project's name is MyProject, there should be a MyProject.egg-link file in the site-packages directory for this Python interpreter. Running the command /path/to/pythonX.Y -m site should help you figure out the possible location of this directory. Find the directory, find the MyProject.egg-link file, delete the file. Then you might also need to find a easy-install.pth in a similar site-packages directory (most likely the same), and in this file delete the line mentioning MyProject.

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