pip: Uninstalling package from specific directory

Remove them manually. pip does not keep hidden directories of installed packages and scans directories such as /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages directly to determine what is installed.

So, if you installed something using -t just go to the directory you specified and delete all traces, including any metadata files. For example,

$ mkdir localpips$ pip install -t localpips docoptDownloading/unpacking docopt  Downloading docopt-0.6.2.tar.gz  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_garyw/docopt/setup.py) egg_info for package docoptInstalling collected packages: docopt  Running setup.py install for docoptSuccessfully installed docoptCleaning up...$ cd localpips$ ls -ltotal 48drwxr-xr-x 2 garyw garyw  4096 Jul  6 17:27 docopt-0.6.2.egg-info-rw-r--r-- 1 garyw garyw 19946 Jul  6 17:27 docopt.py-rw-r--r-- 1 garyw garyw 23326 Jul  6 17:27 docopt.pyc$ 

To uninstall it, just go into localpips and delete the files and directories that were created.

I know, it's not that elegant, and sometimes you have no idea what may be related to what if you didn't observe the install carefully, but that's the way it is.