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Reputation: 509

How can I revert pip uninstall?

I made a mistake by using su -c 'pip3 install' --upgrade pip' to upgrade pip because I got errors when trying to upgrade it as a normal user.

This removed the pre-installed pip and dumped it in /tmp, replacing it with a system wide installation of pip which is only accessible by root. If I try to uninstall the root controlled pip then I think that it would cause problems so I haven't tried to.

How do I get back the pre-installed pip using the executable that is still in /tmp?

Location of pip in /tmp:

/tmp/pip-ufkfr3th-uninstall
└── usr
    └── bin
        └── pip

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4914

Answers (1)

Romeo Ninov
Romeo Ninov

Reputation: 7225

The command you should use is

sudo apt-get --reinstall install python-pip

or 

sudo yum reinstall python27-python-pip

dependent of packaging system you use (DEB or RPM)

Upvotes: 1

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