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

It might be that your item was installed with anaconda. For your numpy, Try:

conda uninstall numpy

I got the same error, and this fixed it for me.