There is a --user option for pip which can install a Python package per user:
pip install --user [python-package-name]
I used this option to install a package on a server for which I do not have root access. What I need now is to uninstall the installed package on the current user. I tried to execute this command:
pip uninstall --user [python-package-name]
But I got:
no such option: --user
How can I uninstall a package that I installed with pip install --user, other than manually finding and deleting the package?
I’ve found this article
pip cannot uninstall from per-user site-packages directory
which describes that uninstalling packages from user directory does not supported. According to the article if it was implemented correctly then with
pip uninstall [package-name]
the package that was installed will be also searched in user directories. But a problem still remains for me. What if the same package was installed both system-wide and per-user?
What if someone needs to target a specific user directory?