On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:03:36AM -0700, Ariel Rokem wrote: > I have a question - how do I go about uninstalling my previous version of > the ETS? A more general question to anyone - what's the right way of > uninstalling any old python package? In the past, I have been advised to > go in and run "rm -rf" on the directory inside my site-packages directory > (and remove stuff from "easy-install.pth"?),
That's the right way to do it. > but in the case of ETS, I am not even sure which directories in > there belong to ETS. This is a real problem that has not been addressed so far. > Is there some elegant way of uninstalling python packages? Not when they have been installed with setuptools, AFAIK. You need to keep track of what dependency installed what. A proposal is out to implement uninstall http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/distutils-state/ However, I am not sure how this will address the concern of installing a chain of dependencies brought by one package. Ga�l
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