How to cleanly remove pip that is installed by using easy_install?

Question

If I used sudo easy_install pip on my OS X Lion 10.7.4, how do I cleanly remove it? After the installation, I also did pip install --upgrade setuptools

Answer 1

From this link:

easy_install -mxN <PackageName>

That means, execute:

easy_install -mxN pip

Then, you can manually remove the .egg files or directories, which should be somewhere in .../Python/2.7/site-packages/[PACKAGE].egg.

But I didn't try that. I even don't use the Mac :)

You can see also similar question: How do I remove packages installed with Python's easy_install?

Answer 2

Use pip to uninstall pip:

sudo pip uninstall pip