Can I force pip to reinstall the current version?

Question

I\'ve come across situations where a current version of a package seems not to be working and requires reinstallation. But pip install -U won\'t touch a package

Answer 1

You might want to have all three options: --upgrade and --force-reinstall ensures reinstallation, while --no-deps avoids reinstalling dependencies.

$ sudo pip install --upgrade --no-deps --force-reinstall <packagename>

Otherwise you might run into the problem that pip starts to recompile Numpy or other large packages.