How to upgrade disutils package PyYAML?

Question

I was trying to install chatterbot which has a dependency on PyYAML=3.12. In my Ubuntu machine installed PyYAML version is

Answer 1

Issue:

Cannot uninstall 'PyYAML'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

Solution : Remove Dist Package and RUN

sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yaml

sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyYAML-*

Removing folder from distutils works