Matt Wheeler <funky...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 Dec 2020, 14:48 +0000, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net>, wrote: > > I seem to have quite a lot of old python packages installed over the > > years using pip and would like, if I can. to clear some of them out. > > > > > > Is there any way to tell if a python package was installed by me > > directly using pip or was installed from the [x]ubuntu repositories? > > 'pip list' just tells me every python package that's installed and > > this really isn't much help. > > > > > > Can one uninstall older versions? For example I seem to have > > three versions of Click installed:- > > > > /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click > > /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/click > > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click > > Everything under one of these directories comes from apt/dpkg packages. > Packages installed using pip will be installed in a directory called > site-packages, > not dist-packages > > To confirm this you can try the command `dpkg -S <path>`, which will tell > you which package a file belongs to > Aaaahhhhh!!!! :-) I hadn't realised *that* was the significance of dist-packages and site-packages, thank you very much, that helps a huge amount.
> <snip> > > > > If one updates a package using pip will it move it as appropriate from > > (for example) /usr/local/lib/python3.7 to /usr/local/lib/python3.8? > > No, each version of pip will completely ignore any packages installed for > a different version of Python Again something I hadn't really understood before but obvious when you think about it. Thank you again. -- Chris Green · -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
