Find all packages installed with easy_install/pip?

Question

Is there a way to find all Python PyPI packages that were installed with easy_install or pip? I mean, excluding everything that was/is installed with the distributions tools (in this case apt-get on Debian).

Answer 1

Here is the one-liner for fedora or other rpm distros (based on @barraponto tips):

find /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages -maxdepth 2 -name __init__.py | xargs rpm -qf | grep 'not owned by any package'

Append this to the previous command to get cleaner output:

 | sed -r 's:.*/(\w+)/__.*:\1:'

Answer 2

If Debian behaves like recent Ubuntu versions regarding pip install default target, it's dead easy: it installs to /usr/local/lib/ instead of /usr/lib (apt default target). Check https://askubuntu.com/questions/173323/how-do-i-detect-and-remove-python-packages-installed-via-pip/259747#259747

I am an ArchLinux user and as I experimented with pip I met this same problem. Here's how I solved it in Arch.

find /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages -maxdepth 2 -name __init__.py | xargs pacman -Qo | grep 'No package'

Key here is /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages, which is the directory pip installs to, YMMV. pacman -Qo is how Arch's pac kage man ager checks for ownership of the file. No package is part of the return it gives when no package owns the file: error: No package owns $FILENAME. Tricky workaround: I'm querying about __init__.py because pacman -Qo is a little bit ignorant when it comes to directories :(

In order to do it for other distros, you have to find out where pip installs stuff (just sudo pip install something), how to query ownership of a file (Debian/Ubuntu method is dpkg -S) and what is the "no package owns that path" return (Debian/Ubuntu is no path found matching pattern). Debian/Ubuntu users, beware: dpkg -S will fail if you give it a symbolic link. Just resolve it first by using realpath. Like this:

find /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages -maxdepth 2 -name __init__.py | xargs realpath | xargs dpkg -S 2>&1 | grep 'no path found'

Fedora users can try (thanks @eddygeek):

find /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages -maxdepth 2 -name __init__.py | xargs rpm -qf | grep 'not owned by any package'

Answer 3

For those who don't have pip installed, I found this quick script on github (works with Python 2.7.13):

import pkg_resources
distros = pkg_resources.AvailableDistributions()
for key in distros:
  print distros[key]

Answer 4

As @almenon pointed out, this no longer works and it is not the supported way to get package information in your code. The following raises an exception:

import pip
installed_packages = dict([(package.project_name, package.version) 
                           for package in pip.get_installed_distributions()])

To accomplish this, you can import pkg_resources. Here's an example:

import pkg_resources
installed_packages = dict([(package.project_name, package.version)
                           for package in pkg_resources.working_set])

I'm on v3.6.5

Answer 5

If you use the Anaconda python distribution, you can use the conda list command to see what was installed by what method:

user@pc:~ $ conda list
# packages in environment at /anaconda3:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf    0.1.0            py36h2fc01ae_0
alabaster                 0.7.10           py36h174008c_0
amqp                      2.2.2                     <pip>
anaconda                  5.1.0                    py36_2
anaconda-client           1.6.9                    py36_0

To grab the entries installed by pip (including possibly pip itself):

user@pc:~ $ conda list | grep \<pip
amqp                      2.2.2                     <pip>
astroid                   1.6.2                     <pip>
billiard                  3.5.0.3                   <pip>
blinker                   1.4                       <pip>
ez-setup                  0.9                       <pip>
feedgenerator             1.9                       <pip>

Of course you probably want to just select the first column, which you can do with (excluding pip if needed):

user@pc:~ $ conda list | awk '$3 ~ /pip/ {if ($1 != "pip") print $1}'
amqp        
astroid
billiard
blinker
ez-setup
feedgenerator 

Finally you can grab these values and pip uninstall all of them using the following:

user@pc:~ $ conda list | awk '$3 ~ /pip/ {if ($1 != "pip") print $1}' | xargs pip uninstall -y

Note the use of the -y flag for the pip uninstall to avoid having to give confirmation to delete.

Answer 6

Get all file/folder names in site-packages/ (and dist-packages/ if it exists), and use your package manager to strip the ones that were installed via package.