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I accidentally globally installed a package called -igalixir
with pip3. When I try to uninstall it with pip3 uninstall -igalixir
it interprets -igalixir
as a command line option. I have tried surrounding it with quotes which also doesn't work.
The output of pip3 list
and pip3 freeze
are as follows:
$ pip3 list
Package Version
---------- -------
-igalixir 1.0.19
click 6.7
pip 19.0.3
proxy.py 0.3
Pygments 2.2.0
requests 2.13.0
rollbar 0.13.18
setuptools 40.8.0
six 1.12.0
stripe 1.51.0
wheel 0.33.1
$ pip3 freeze
Could not parse requirement: -igalixir
click==6.7
proxy.py==0.3
Pygments==2.2.0
requests==2.13.0
rollbar==0.13.18
six==1.12.0
stripe==1.51.0
I'm not even sure how I installed it in the first place if it is an invalid package name. Is there anyway to cleanly purge this from my system. I don't want any random files hanging around my system - so I prefer if it uninstalled properly.
EDIT
I tried to separate the -igialixir
term with --
, like so: pip3 uninstall -- -igalixir
, and although it does not interpret -igialixar
as a command line option any more, it still doesn't accept it because it is an invalid requirement.
$ pip3 uninstall -- -igalixir
Invalid requirement: '-igalixir'
I was going to suggest using
– slhck – 2019-05-20T09:28:48.097pip
's internal API to call it from a Python program, but it's not really supported. Why not install a dummy package, then uninstall with-v
and check the paths, then manually repeat the deletion commands with your faulty package?I'm having same issue. Any luck with this? – rekans – 2019-11-01T23:23:47.020
@rekans I'm afraid not, my solution was to reinstall pip3 IIRC. – Llew Vallis – 2019-11-04T09:29:53.017