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HOW TO UNINSTALL PYTHON ON MAC INSTALL
HOW TO UNINSTALL PYTHON ON MAC MAC

If you don't have brew installed (firstly you should be ashamed of yourself):.

Here is the trick: We are NOT using easy_install.

HOW TO UNINSTALL PYTHON ON MAC INSTALL

Now that you fixed the permissions, you can go ahead and install a python2 interpreter that will NOT ever require sudo with pip and hence will install your packages just fine: (don't worry we will get to python3 as well) That's why we made everything belong to us Let's install the one and only python2 we will use!: That's why the next step is so important:īasically, everything in this folder is supposed to NOT require root priviliges, which if they do they give pip a hard time later on. Thus any attempt to install new python versions will seem to work fine for now, but will be a brat later on. Then there is a good chance you messed up permissions with some packages too. Here's the fun part: if you already messed up your python environment, What's important is how you install the new version.

If you have anaconda installed, get rid of that too:.

In other words, delete old paths related to python. bash_profile):ĭelete all lines that have amework in it.

zprofile or whichever shell you are using (If you don't know what I'm talking about then it's. (source: but I changed it a bit to remove python3 too)Įdit whatever shell profile you have, like. Ls -l /usr/local/bin | grep './Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/2.7' | awk '' | tr -d | xargs rm Otherwise you WILL have to reinstall macos, it WILL crash, don't do it. Remove all the third party python installations:Ĭareful! Don't delete anything under the /System/ folder.I am not sure if this is really necessary, but I did it just so I get a fresh start First, remove all the python packages you installed.any attempt to fix using online resources made it worse.

almost no package I installed with pip worked without a headache.

Too many different symlinks which I lost track of.

I had too many different python interpreters.

Here is what I had messed up, which you also probably did: Whatever I install for python2 or python3 using pip JUST.WORKS. Today, I finally fixed my python installation.

HOW TO UNINSTALL PYTHON ON MAC MAC

I am assuming you are here because like me, you installed a bazillion different python interpreters on mac and the whole thing is a spagetti.