How can one uninstall virtualenvwrapper?

Question

I believe that I have installed virtualenvwrapper incorrectly (the perils of following different tutorials for python setup).

I would like to remove the extension completely from my Mac OSX system but there seems to be no documentation on how to do this.

Does anyone know how to completely reverse the installation? Its wreaking havoc with my attempts to compile python scripts.

Jurdi

It's hard to say without more information about what tutorials or methods you used to install it. Can you add some example output that shows what "wreaking havoc" means? – Melchior

Hi Roshi thank you for your reply, I followed the following tutorial to setup python: hackercodex.com/guide/python-development-environment-on-mac-osx and for virtualenvwrapper: code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/… If you look under the comment by NickUK on the HackerCodex tutorial, you can see a screen dump of the problem. – Jurdi

With my noob understanding, I think when I create virtual environments, they are created in a folder called virtualenvs while activation seems to activate in a hidden macOS folder named .virtualenvs. Presumably because the virtualenvwrapper installation requires the command: 'export WORKON_HOME=.virtualenvs' – Jurdi

I have tried setting work_home to virtualenvs but this seems to do nothing. On suggestion by a coding colleague to work around all of this I installed Anaconda which I imagine has changed more settings. In short... Ive made a huge mess and really need a hand. Any help you can give would be hugely appreciated – Jurdi

If you used pip to install things, you can get rid of them by using pip uninstall foo where foo is the python package you want to uninstall. – Melchior

Hi there, I did use pip to install. I have tried using pip uninstall but it returns 'Cannot uninstall requirement virtualenvwrapper, not installed' this despite the fact that it is clearly installed within the user profile – Jurdi

So part of the problem here is the fact that there are several different "pip"s on your machine now. There's the OSX system pip, the brew installed pip and then a pip in each virtualenv you created. So now you have to look through and figure out which pip actually did the install and remove it there. – Melchior

Jens, if I recall correctly, there was no option for a comment on the question itself. I hadn't read this (meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214173/…) yet, so I did the wrong thing and put my comment in an answer. Sorry for that. – Melchior

Answer 1

pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper

Or

sudo pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper

worked for me.

Transship

Answer 2

On windows - This works great
pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper-win

Heterogony

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