How do you uninstall the package manager "pip", if installed from source?

Question

I was unaware that pip could be installed via my operating system's package manager, so I compiled and installed pip via source with the following command: ``` wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | sudo python ``` I would like to uninstall pip, and instead install it from my operating system's package manager. How would I go about completely undoing the work of the installation script?

Accepted Answer

That way you haven't installed pip, you installed just the `easy_install` i.e. `setuptools`.

First you should remove all the packages you installed with `easy_install` using (see uninstall):

```
easy_install -m PackageName
```

This includes `pip` if you installed it using `easy_install pip`.

After this you remove the `setuptools` following the instructions from here:

If setuptools package is found in your global site-packages directory, you may safely remove the following file/directory:

```
setuptools-*.egg
```

If setuptools is installed in some other location such as the user site directory (eg: ~/.local, ~/Library/Python or %APPDATA%), then you may safely remove the following files:

```
pkg_resources.py
easy_install.py
setuptools/
setuptools-*.egg-info/
```

How do you uninstall the package manager "pip", if installed from source?

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