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Clean out packages installed with easy_install

If you have never used easy_install_ on your system you don't need to read any further - congratulations!

If you have used easy_install in the past, you might run into some difficult-to-diagnose installation problems. To avoid these, we suggest you remove any packages you previously installed with easy_install.

First you need to find the packages installed with easy_install. To do this, find the site-packages or dist-packages directory to which easy_install will have installed. See :doc:`debian_python_paths` for an description of the paths to which Python packages can get installed on Debian / Ubuntu. You can check the location of installation directories by looking at the contents of sys.path at the Python prompt:

$ python
>>> import sys
>>> print("\n".join(sys.path))

Some common site-packages / dist-packages directory locations follow. The X.Y in pythonX.Y refers to your Python version, so pythonX.Y corresponds to python2.7 for Python 2.7 etc.

  • Debian / Ubuntu system installation: /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages (see: :doc:`debian_python_paths`);
  • Fedora system installation for pure Python packages: /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages;
  • Fedora 64-bit system installation for packages with compiled extensions: /usr/lib64/pythonX.Y/site-packages;
  • Linux home installation: $HOME/.local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages
  • OSX Python.org installation: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/X.Y/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages;
  • OSX Python user installation: $HOME/Library/Python/X.Y/lib/python/site-packages;

Look in your site-packages / dist-packages directory for a file called easy-install.pth. If no such file exists, you have no easy_install installs in that directory.

If the file does exist, look for the packages listed in the file. The file will look something like:

import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path)
./requests-0.12.1-py2.7.egg
./oauthlib-0.1.3-py2.7.egg
./certifi-0.0.8-py2.7.egg
./rsa-3.0.1-py2.7.egg
./pyasn1-0.1.3-py2.7.egg
import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new)

Delete each directory listed. For example, if your package directory containing the easy-install.pth file was /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages then:

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-0.12.1-py2.7.egg
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oauthlib-0.1.3-py2.7.egg

etc. When you have finished deleting these directories, delete the easy-install.pth file. Repeat for each potential package directory.

If you need these packages, then you can re-install them using `pip`_.