Does uninstalling a package with "pip" also remove the dependent packages?
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Accepted answer links:
[pip-autoremove]: https://github.com/invl/pip-autoremove
Answer 2 links:
[pip-autoremove]: https://github.com/invl/pip-autoremove
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Accepted answer links:
[pip-autoremove]: https://github.com/invl/pip-autoremove
Answer 2 links:
[pip-autoremove]: https://github.com/invl/pip-autoremove
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ANSWER 1
Score 419
You can install and use the pip3-autoremove utility to remove a package plus unused dependencies.
# install pip3-autoremove
pip install pip3-autoremove
# remove "somepackage" plus its dependencies:
pip-autoremove somepackage -y
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 162
No, it doesn't uninstall the dependencies packages. It only removes the specified package:
$ pip install specloud
$ pip freeze # all the packages here are dependencies of specloud package
figleaf==0.6.1
nose==1.1.2
pinocchio==0.3
specloud==0.4.5
$ pip uninstall specloud
$ pip freeze
figleaf==0.6.1
nose==1.1.2
pinocchio==0.3
As you can see those packages are dependencies from specloud and they're still there, but not the specloud package itself.
As mentioned below, you can install and use the pip-autoremove utility to remove a package plus unused dependencies.
ANSWER 3
Score 18
I've successfully removed dependencies of a package using this bash line:
for dep in $(pip show somepackage | grep Requires | sed 's/Requires: //g; s/,//g') ; do pip uninstall -y $dep ; done
this worked on pip 1.5.4
ANSWER 4
Score 1
You may have a try for https://github.com/cls1991/pef. It will remove package with its all dependencies.