Does Uninstalling a Package with "Pip" Also Remove the Dependent Packages?
When You Use Pip to Install a Package, All the Required Packages Will Also Be Installed with It (Dependencies). Does Uninstalling That Package Also Remove the...
When you use pip to install a package, all the required packages will also be installed with it (dependencies). Does uninstalling that package also remove the dependent packages?
5 Answers
You can install and use the pip-autoremove utility to remove a package plus unused dependencies.
# install pip-autoremove
pip install pip-autoremove
# remove "somepackage" plus its dependencies:
pip-autoremove somepackage -y
No, it doesn't uninstall the dependencies packages. It only removes the specified package:
$ pip install specloud
$ pip freeze # all the packages here are dependencies of specloud package
figleaf==0.6.1
nose==1.1.2
pinocchio==0.3
specloud==0.4.5
$ pip uninstall specloud
$ pip freeze
figleaf==0.6.1
nose==1.1.2
pinocchio==0.3
As you can see those packages are dependencies from specloud and they're still there, but not the specloud package itself.
As mentioned below, You can install and use the pip-autoremove utility to remove a package plus unused dependencies.
i've successfully removed dependencies of a package using this bash line:
for dep in $(pip show somepackage | grep Requires | sed 's/Requires: //g; s/,//g') ; do pip uninstall -y $dep ; done
this worked on pip 1.5.4
I have found the solution even though it might be a little difficult for some to carry out.
1st step (for python3 and linux):
pip3 install pip-autoremove
2nd step:
cd /home/usernamegoeshere/.local/bin/
3rd step:
gedit /home/usernamegoeshere/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip_autoremove.py
and change all pip(s) to pip3
4th step:
./pip-autoremove packagenamegoeshere
At least, this was what worked for me ...
You may have a try for . It will remove package with its all dependencies.
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