Don't know how to uninstall unwanted Spacy installation, model
spaCy installs models as packages (via pip
). That means you can uninstall them via pip
as well:
pip list
This shows you all the installed packages, including the spaCy models.
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en-core-web-sm 2.0.0
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pip uninstall en-core-web-sm
This will remove the en
model.
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Successfully uninstalled en-core-web-sm-2.0.0
Gregg Williams
Updated on June 27, 2022Comments
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Gregg Williams almost 2 years
I have limited disk memory and want to know how to uninstall/remove files for spacy 2.xx under python 2.7 (I use python3 and think I've got spacy installed correctly for it). Ditto for the default model in my python3 install. Here's my terminal session:
gw-mac-pro:~ gr$ pip install -U spacy Collecting spacy Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f8/db/490f0552f0f39eb3b75119 ... Linking successful /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/en_core_web_sm --> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/data/en You can now load the model via spacy.load('en') gw-mac-pro:~ gr$ python -m spacy download en
Is there an uninstall script (I couldn't find one)? If not, can I just remove these directories? Do I need to remove files elsewhere?
New to spacy, obviously. Thanks for your help!
ADDED: I should have mentioned I'm on Mac OS (excuse me, macOS). I just found a command to show info on my spacy installation. Here's what it returns for python 2.7
gw-mac-pro:~ gr$ python -m spacy info Info about spaCy Python version 2.7.15 Platform Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit spaCy version 2.0.16 Location /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy Models en
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Bram Vanroy about 5 yearsSome confusion may be had because of the shortcut names.
en
is a shortcut for the small English model, not for the medium or large ones. You still have to uninstall those separately.