How to remove ColourPicker if installed through Python

[lvanderwiele]

Hi!

I wanted to install Pick and tried the snap version which worked but, as is usually the case with snaps didn't pickup my theme so I installed the python version which I hoped would integrated better with my desktop only to find out it didn't launch. I reinstalled the snap version and now it doesn't launch either and Pick appears twice in my menus. I think the presence of both version causes a problem and prevents the snap version to launch and I'd like to know how to remove the python version after having done a sudo python3 setup.py install.

[stuartlangridge]

That's a good question :-( It seems that uninstalling such things isn't as easy as it should be; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1550226/python-setup-py-uninstall lists a few approaches, none of which are great, so thank you for bringing this up. I think I shall update the install instructions to not recommend installing that way.

[Natetronn]

On Manjaro (arch) I did the following. Not sure it's correct but, I think I was able to install and uninstall too.

Downloaded the repo, unzipped, renamed the folder to pick-colour-picker and moved it to my custom ~/Applications (just a folder I have setup for Appimages and WINE apps etc.)

Updated setup.py to current version 1.51, as it was still at 1.0.

Then I ran the following from within ~/Applications folder:

sudo pip install -e pick-colour-picker

Note: pip's -e option needs to point to the pick-colour-picker folder itself, where setup.py resides; change the path if you renamed it something else. Also, other people were trying to run pip install setup.py and getting errors and or having issue with uninstall afterwards.

Lastly, I updated pick-colour-picker.desktop icon path using an absolute path to point to pick-colour-picker/pick-colour-picker.png and this so the icon shows up on the desktop shortcut. Sudo copied the .desktop to the correct spot so it shows up in the launcher/menu:

cd pick-colour-picker
sudo cp ./pick-colour-picker.desktop /usr/share/applications

Seems to have worked a treat.

To uninstall:
pip uninstall pick-colour-picker

P.s. thanks for the cool color picker. It's nice and clean and simple. I like it!

[Prn-Ice]

Thanks a lot works on Pop OS 20.04.

[maxreuben]

Unable to uninstall on Fedora 34 after following these instructions. Used sudo pip install -e ColourPicker to install as that was the name of the directory. But now when i run pip uninstall ColourPicker it gives me a warning saying: WARNING: Skipping ColourPicker as it is not installed..

And when I run pip uninstall pick-colour-picker it says:

Found existing installation: pick-colour-picker 1.0
Can't uninstall 'pick-colour-picker'. No files were found to uninstall.

What kind of pickle have I gotten myself into? Anybody who knows how to fix this?

On Manjaro (arch) I did the following. Not sure it's correct but, I think I was able to install and uninstall too.

Downloaded the repo, unzipped, renamed the folder to pick-colour-picker and moved it to my custom ~/Applications (just a folder I have setup for Appimages and WINE apps etc.)

Updated setup.py to current version 1.51, as it was still at 1.0.

Then I ran the following from within ~/Applications folder:

sudo pip install -e pick-colour-picker

Note: pip's -e option needs to point to the pick-colour-picker folder itself, where setup.py resides; change the path if you renamed it something else. Also, other people were trying to run pip install setup.py and getting errors and or having issue with uninstall afterwards.

Lastly, I updated pick-colour-picker.desktop icon path using an absolute path to point to pick-colour-picker/pick-colour-picker.png and this so the icon shows up on the desktop shortcut. Sudo copied the .desktop to the correct spot so it shows up in the launcher/menu:

cd pick-colour-picker
sudo cp ./pick-colour-picker.desktop /usr/share/applications

Seems to have worked a treat.

To uninstall: pip uninstall pick-colour-picker

P.s. thanks for the cool color picker. It's nice and clean and simple. I like it!