uninstall pyzmq

Question

I am trying to install jupyter notebook on Ubuntu 18.04 using pip3. However, I run into this error:

" Cannot uninstall 'pyzmq'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall."

I tried the command below but still no success.

pip3 uninstall pyzmq

Any help would be appreciated.

Solution 1

What I did to solve a similar problem is that I updated the pyzmq first while ignoring previous installations, using the command below:

pip3 install --ignore-installed pyzmq

Then, I installed the jupyter notebook with the following command:

pip3 install jupyter

Solution 2

This probably has to do with the pip version you are using.

You can use pip 9 instead:

sudo -H pip3 install pip==9.0.3

And than uninstall/install what you need:

sudo -H pip3 uninstall pyzmq