The post describe about how to remove python module installed from source code on Linux.
We use python setup.py install
command to install the python module from source code. The related files copied to various path. Hence we will target these files copied in various path
You must have extracted(untar) source code of that particular version of python module.
Change to extracted directory and run given below command.
cd Module-directory-name
Run the given below command.
python setup.py install --record removefiles.txt
Because of option --record
, it will record the absolute path of modules files into removefiles.txt
The given below command that is bash ‘for loop’ will remove all files listed in removefiles.txt
for i in `cat removefiles.txt`;do rm -fr $i ;done
Now check, the python should be remove now.