OS X Uninstall a distutils installed project

Question

I\'m on El Capitan and I want to install numpy with pip. However I get the following error:

Detected a distutils installed project (\'numpy\') which we canno         


        

Answer 1

Since there is no metadata about the installed files, I found the easiest way to be removing the files manually. Simply retrieve the directory of the module (I referred to this: Retrieving python module path), and delete the folder, as well as the accompanying .egg-info file. Then install your desired numpy version without the --update flag.