In article <[email protected]>, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[email protected]> wrote: > mk wrote: > > I googled and googled and can't seem to find the definitive answer: how > > to *properly* deinstall egg? Just delete the folder and/or .py and .pyc > > files from Lib/site-packages? Would that break anything in Python > > installation or not? > > It depends on how you installed it. If it is done via > setuptools/easy_install, you should also clean up the > > site-packages/easy-install.pth > > file.
... and which you can do by editing that file directly or by using the easy_install -m option to mark the egg as multi-version before deleting. In either case, keep in mind that the egg may have installed one or more scripts; those have to be removed manually. <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#uninstalling-package s> -- Ned Deily, [email protected] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
