Uninstall virtualenv which was installed through sudo pip
Solution 1
I was looking for the same thing and I saw this by chance. you can do this.
sudo apt-get remove virtualenv
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove virtualenv
If it is normal, the following statement is not executed. But try it once.
sudo apt-get purge python-virtualenv
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove python-virtualenv
Solution 2
try sudo pip uninstall virtualenv
and this should work
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shaun over 1 year
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Tried and successfully created a virtual environment using virtualenv.
[08:05 USER@system ~] > mkdir test_virtual [08:05 USER@system ~] > virtualenv test_virtual/ New python executable in /home/USER/test_virtual/bin/python Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done. [08:05 USER@system ~] > ls test_virtual/ bin include lib local pip-selfcheck.json
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As requested here are the pastebin links to pip list and pip3 list.
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I installed virtualenv using sudo pip install virtualenv, which after reading on several answers here is actually not a good practice. When I try to uninstall it (mainly because I'm planning to go the anaconda way and I don't like extra dirt that I don't use on my system) I get the following error:
(09:20 USER@system ~) > sudo pip uninstall virtualenv The directory '/home/USER/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. Cannot uninstall requirement virtualenv, not installed The directory '/home/USER/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
When I use
sudo -H
flag, I get this:Cannot uninstall requirement virtualenv, not installed
But I confirmed that virtualenv is still installed:
(09:25 USER@system ~) > which virtualenv virtualenv is /usr/local/bin/virtualenv virtualenv is /usr/local/bin/virtualenv virtualenv is /usr/local/bin/virtualenv virtualenv is /usr/local/bin/virtualenv
How do I uninstall virtualenv from my system?
Thanks.
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shaun almost 8 yearsI've removed them.
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edwinksl almost 8 yearsAre you sure you installed
virtualenv
usingsudo pip install virtualenv
instead ofsudo pip3 install virtualenv
? Can you dosudo pip list
andsudo pip3 list
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shaun almost 8 yearsI did those commands. They spit out a bunch of package names and at the end of the list the same error that says "the directory /home/USER/.cache/pip/http or its parent directory..." was also displayed for both pip and pip3. Also when I grep'd the list for virtualenv (using both virtual as the pattern and env as a the pattern) I didn't get any output except the error.
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edwinksl almost 8 yearsCan you put those outputs into your question or put them into a pastebin and link the pastebin? We are going to need more information than what you have given so far to figure out what happened.
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edwinksl almost 8 yearsHmm, so
pip list
andpip3 list
don't havevirtualenv
, which is at least consistent with the "Cannot uninstall requirement virtualenv, not installed" error message. If you just try to runvirtualenv
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shaun almost 8 yearsYes. I've updated my question with the results.
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user2018197 about 7 years@shaun How did you solve this? I too have installed virtualenv
pip install virtualenv
and now I cannot remove it. Also virtualenv does not show up inpip freeze
orpip list
. How did you uninstall virtualenv?
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