How to delete all python packages

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Hi Lucas-topper,

Sorry for the difficulties in answering your question :slight_smile:

From my understanding of Python projects on Glitch, the packages are stored in ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages and ~/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (this is the case on hello-flask at least)

You could open the Glitch terminal and navigate to this directory, and delete all files using the rm command.

Be careful, this will remove all packages. Maybe you could use the terminal to just delete the ones you want to remove.

cd ~/.local/lib/python2.7/
rm -rf ./site-packages
mkdir site-packages
cd ~/.local/lib/python3.7/
rm -rf ./site-packages
mkdir site-packages

This recreates the site-packages folder, for your app to (hopefully) start up again.

To reinstall packages from your requirements.txt:

cd ~
pip install -r requirements.txt

I hope it helps! :snake::sunflower:

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