Uninstallation

Uninstalling OpenEye Python Toolkits - Anaconda

Uninstallation is straightforward:

(oepython)$ conda uninstall openeye-toolkits

The following packages will be REMOVED:

openeye-toolkits: 2018.2-py34_0 openeye

Proceed ([y]/n)?

Uninstalling OpenEye Python Toolkits - PIP

Special care must be taken to uninstall everything when the OpenEye toolkits were installed from OpenEye’s anaconda.org repository. The following command will actually install two packages, as can be seen with the following pip list command:

(oepython) $ pip install -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/OpenEye/simple OpenEye-toolkits
...
(oepython) $ pip list
OpenEye-toolkits (|pypkgversion|)
OpenEye-toolkits-python3-osx-x64 (|pypkgversion|)
pip (9.0.1)
setuptools (0.38.4)

The OpenEye-toolkits package is referred to as the “meta-package” as its sole purpose is to do automatic platform detection for the proper binary package, then install that package as well. The OpenEye-toolkits-python3-osx-x64 package seen above is the actual package that contains the openeye module. That means to fully uninstall all OpenEye toolkit packages, both packages need to be removed. Both packages can be removed by explicitly specifying both like the following:

(oepython) $ pip uninstall OpenEye-toolkits
...
(oepython) $ pip uninstall OpenEye-toolkits-python3-osx-x64
...

For those wishing to only copy and paste a single command to uninstall all OpenEye Python packages, the following Linux shell one liner will do the trick:

(oepython) $ pip uninstall \`pip list | grep 'OpenEye-toolkits' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs\`
Uninstalling OpenEye-toolkits:
...
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled OpenEye-toolkits
Uninstalling OpenEye-toolkits-python3-osx-x64:
...
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled OpenEye-toolkits-python3-osx-x64