Question
Asked By – Hossein
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?
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Answer
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.
This question is answered By – Bengineer
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