On 29 Dec 2020, 14:48 +0000, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net>, wrote: > I seem to have quite a lot of old python packages installed over the > years using pip and would like, if I can. to clear some of them out. > > > Is there any way to tell if a python package was installed by me > directly using pip or was installed from the [x]ubuntu repositories? > 'pip list' just tells me every python package that's installed and > this really isn't much help. > > > Can one uninstall older versions? For example I seem to have > three versions of Click installed:- > > /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click > /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/click > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click
Everything under one of these directories comes from apt/dpkg packages. Packages installed using pip will be installed in a directory called site-packages, not dist-packages To confirm this you can try the command `dpkg -S <path>`, which will tell you which package a file belongs to <snip> > > If one updates a package using pip will it move it as appropriate from > (for example) /usr/local/lib/python3.7 to /usr/local/lib/python3.8? No, each version of pip will completely ignore any packages installed for a different version of Python > Can pip (or some other tool) tell me what other python packages depend > on one I'm considering uninstalling? pipdeptree can do this > If there are any tools/utilities one can install to check these things > out I'd love to know about them. > > -- > Chris Green > · > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
