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Does uninstalling a package with "pip" also remove the dependent packages?

When you use pip to install a package, all the required packages will also be installed with it (dependencies). Does uninstalling that package also remove the dependent packages?

Solution

  • 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.