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+ <h1>setup.py uninstall</h1><b>Contents</b><ul>
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+<a href="#unix-like">Unix-like</a>
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+<a href="#windows">Windows</a>
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+<a href="#use-other-methods-which-fully-support-uninstall-when-available">Use other methods which fully support uninstall when available</a>
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+<h2 id="unix-like">Unix-like</h2>
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+<p>Install over the existing installation with the same sources, recording installed files, then delete them.</p>
+<div class="highlight"><pre>sudo python setup.py install --record files.txt
+<span class="c1"># inspect files.txt to make sure it looks ok. Then in bash:</span>
+tr <span class="s1">'\n'</span> <span class="s1">'\0'</span> < files.txt <span class="p">|</span> xargs -0 sudo rm -f --
+</pre></div>
+<h2 id="windows">Windows</h2>
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+<p>Install on top of the existing installation with a windows installer, then add-remove programs to uninstall.</p>
+<div class="highlight"><pre>python setup.py bdist_wininst
+dist/foo-1.0.win32.exe
+</pre></div>
+<h2 id="use-other-methods-which-fully-support-uninstall-when-available">Use other methods which fully support uninstall when available</h2>
+
+<p>Uninstalling setup.py install has some <em>inherent problems</em>, which usually aren't a problem:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Files which a different package also depends on will be removed by uninstall</li>
+<li>Can't remove installed directories. --record only records non-directory files.</li>
+<li>If a file is installed which includes a newline, the command this page
+recommends will fail. This won't happen except for a rare bug or a
+malicious program. We could overcome this by using bdist_dumb, then
+removing the files found in the archive which that command
+builds. However, I'm no more confident of that command not having a
+bug or edge case in which it would produce different files than a
+normal install than I am of a package having a file with a newline in
+it.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="alternatives">Alternatives</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>pip</li>
+<li>python setup.py install bdist_rpm</li>
+<li>python setup.py bdist_wininst</li>
+<li><a href="https://packaging.python.org/">official python recommendations</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>This page is also at <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/25209129/14456">stackoverflow answer</a>.</p>
+
+<p>TODO: contribute this under https://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Cookbook.</p>
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