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 below given command.
cd Module-directory-name
Run the below given 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 below given one liner , for loop will remove all files listed in removefiles.txt
for i in `cat removefiles.txt`;do rm -fr $i ;done