Cannot uninstall numpy on ubuntu

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It seems my pip is broken:

ubuntu@ip-x:~$ pip3 uninstall numpy
WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip.
Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue.
To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with '-m pip' instead of running pip directly.
Found existing installation: numpy 1.19.5
ERROR: Cannot uninstall numpy 1.19.5, RECORD file not found. You might be able to recover from this via: 'pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps numpy==1.19.5'.

ubuntu@ip-x:~$ python3 -m pip uninstall numpy
Found existing installation: numpy 1.19.5
ERROR: Cannot uninstall numpy 1.19.5, RECORD file not found. You might be able to recover from this via: 'pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps numpy==1.19.5'.

ubuntu@ip-x:~$ sudo apt remove python3-numpy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'python3-numpy' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
ubuntu@ip-172-30-0-42:~$

Why I cannot uninstall numpy?

EDIT: not sure if it could be related but I have OpenVINO installed

EDIT2: I tried the suggested solution, but it does not work:

ubuntu@ip-x:~$ pip3 install --force-reinstall --no-deps numpy==1.19.5
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com
Collecting numpy==1.19.5
  Downloading numpy-1.19.5-cp36-cp36m-manylinux2010_x86_64.whl (14.8 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 14.8 MB 6.3 MB/s            
Installing collected packages: numpy
  Attempting uninstall: numpy
    Found existing installation: numpy 1.19.5
ERROR: Cannot uninstall numpy 1.19.5, RECORD file not found. You might be able to recover from this via: 'pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps numpy==1.19.5'.

EDIT3: I am trying to install because I am have some issues with numpy. I think there are different versions, compare:

pip3 uninstall numpy
Found existing installation: numpy 1.19.5
ERROR: Cannot uninstall numpy 1.19.5, RECORD file not found. You might be able to recover from this via: 'pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps numpy==1.19.5'.

with

ubuntu@x:~$ python3 -c "import numpy;print(numpy.__version__);print(numpy.__file__)";
1.18.5
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/numpy/__init__.py

EDIT4: I can't use numba:

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com
Collecting numba
  Downloading numba-0.53.1-cp36-cp36m-manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (3.4 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 3.4 MB 7.9 MB/s            
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from numba) (58.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.15 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from numba) (1.19.5)
Collecting llvmlite<0.37,>=0.36.0rc1
  Downloading llvmlite-0.36.0-cp36-cp36m-manylinux2010_x86_64.whl (25.3 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 25.3 MB 128.3 MB/s            
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/numpy-1.19.5.dist-info/METADATA'

Have you tried running the suggested command?

DeepSpace
– DeepSpace

2021-10-12 15:29:47 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 15:29 — DeepSpace
– DeepSpace, Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 15:29
incidentally, why are you trying to uninstall numpy?

2e0byo
– 2e0byo

2021-10-12 15:31:46 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 15:31 — 2e0byo
– 2e0byo, Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 15:31
Suggested solution gives me the same error.

user1315621
– user1315621

2021-10-12 15:40:54 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 15:40 — user1315621
– user1315621, Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 15:40
See above for the reason.

user1315621
– user1315621

2021-10-12 15:42:00 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 15:42 — user1315621
– user1315621, Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 15:42

2e0byo · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-12 15:30:54Z

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Because your numpy installation is either broken, or was not handled by pip:

ERROR: Cannot uninstall numpy 1.19.5, RECORD file not found.

Either take the brute force solution provided, or track down where the numpy files actually came from---have a look in your PYTHONPATH.

answered Oct 12, 2021 at 15:30

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user1315621 · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-12 16:05:45Z

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It seems I fixed with:

pip3 install --user --force-reinstall --no-deps numpy==1.19.5

At least that got numpy and numba working.

answered Oct 12, 2021 at 16:05

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Vasily · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-12 15:46:28Z

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Ultimate solution is removing numpy directrly

rm -rf ~/.local/lib/python/site-packages/numpy
pip install numpy

but first you should check which python do you user and find yout site-packages path

edited Oct 12, 2021 at 15:46

answered Oct 12, 2021 at 15:37

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user1315621 Over a year ago

Directory ` ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy` does not exist.

Vasily Over a year ago

try to detect your python version

Vasily Over a year ago

user command "which python"

user1315621 Over a year ago

/usr/bin/python3 but cd ~/.local/lib/python3 does not exist. Only ~/.local/lib/python3.6 exists.

Vasily Over a year ago

so try to use your path - rm -rf ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy

Vasily · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-12 15:32:32Z

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You can find installed packages with this command pip freeze
I recommend you to use virtual enviroment

edited Oct 12, 2021 at 15:32

answered Oct 12, 2021 at 15:30

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Vasily Over a year ago

thx i saw apt usage in question and thought that in can be executable package "numpy"

user1315621 Over a year ago

Yes, which numpy returns numpy not found.

Vasily Over a year ago

i changed command

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