如何从OSX（雪豹）手动卸载PIL

Question

I managed to manually install PIL on my macbook (without package managers, please don't answer use xcode, as I want to do this manually).

Unwanted answers:

• just install xcode/pillow/ use pip /etc

The answer I am looking for could be:

• a python script that will do that in your system can be found here
• use these terminal commands
• less good: the files PIL installed are here, here and here, delete them

I used these commands amongst others:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

And I got this result:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
PIL 1.1.7 SETUP SUMMARY
--------------------------------------------------------------------
version       1.1.7
platform      darwin 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
              [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
--- TKINTER support available
--- JPEG support available
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support available
*** FREETYPE2 support not available
*** LITTLECMS support not available
--------------------------------------------------------------------
To add a missing option, make sure you have the required
library, and set the corresponding ROOT variable in the
setup.py script.

My big picture problem (which I will address in another question) is that I need FREETYPE2 support, but the first step will be to uninstall PIL correctly using either a python script or the terminal. My system has an intel processor and is OSX version 10.6.8

Thanks

Answer 1

There is no simple script you can run that will do this in all cases. (That's a large part of the reason pip was invented…)

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Apple's pre-installed Python 2.6 sets its default site-packages directory to:

/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages

… and its scripts directory to:

/usr/local/bin

So, sudo python setup.py install will install everything to those two directories.

If you're using a third-party Python, or have changed the configuration, the locations may be elsewhere, so I'll refer to these as ${sitedir} and ${bindir} below.

Exactly what you get installed depends on which version of PIL or pillow you installed. With the last few versions of PIL, it should be:

• ${sitedir}/PIL
• ${sitedir}/PIL-xyz-py2.6.egg-info
• ${bindir}/pil*.py (five scripts)

Depending on the way you have setuptools and/or distribute installed, you may not have the egg-info directory. With Pillow, the egg-info file is named Pillow-xyz-py2.6.egg-info . With older PIL, you may have only four scripts instead of five.

Anyway, if you have the egg-info directory, look at the installed-files.txt inside of it. All of those files, relative to the egg-info directory itself, are what got installed. However, just passing that file to rm -rf will leave behind any directories automatically created along the way—most notably, the ${sitedir}/PIL package directory. You could write a script that removes each file, then removes any directories that are left empty as a result… but that could be a bad idea if, eg, you happen to have nothing else in /usr/local/bin . So, it's useful as a guide to drive or double-check manual cleanup, but it won't make everything automatic.