How Uninstall pip and python

Question

I wanted to install version 3 of python and pip but instead issued

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev

how do I uninstall python and pip, I tried sudo apt-get uninstall but did not work, what is the correct command?

Solution 1

In order to remove it type:

sudo apt-get remove python-pip python-dev

If you're not sure which switch to use, you can add the --help switch to almost if not every Linux command to get details about the command.

Example:

apt-get --help

Solution 2

to fully remove those you can use sudo apt purge python-pip python-dev <-- this will delete all the files/directories/binaries created by that package

Comments

[Admin]

Just a note, on ubuntu you have python-pip and python3-pip, but they have different commands anyway. One is pip and the other is pip3. As such installing python-pip and python-dev is not detrimental.

[Kyle Bridenstine]

If you're on an aws ec2-instance you have to use yum. Anyone know the command using yum and not apt-get?

[Itai Ganot]

@KyleBridenstine this is partially right, if you use aws ami of Amazon Linux then since it is based on Centos, then you use yum. The equivalent in Yum is: “yum remove package_name”.

[Drasius]

"sudo yum remove python-pip python-dev" works fine for CentOS 7