only-pip3-autoremove

Remove a package and its unused dependencies.

This is a fork of https://github.com/invl/pip-autoremove to port it to Python 3. To be clear, this is designed to only work with Python 3, and pip3 by extension.

Quickstart

First install only-pip3-autoremove

$ pip3 install only-pip3-autoremove

To install using Git:

$ pip3 install git+https://github.com/JohnDevlopment/pip-autoremove.git

Install a package which has dependencies, e.g. Flask

$ pip3 install Flask
...
Successfully installed Flask Jinja2 MarkupSafe Werkzeug blinker click itsdangerous

Uninstall it and all its unused dependencies

$ pip3-autoremove Flask -y
Flask 2.3.2 (/tmp/pip-autoremove/test/.env/lib/python3.10/site-packages)
    itsdangerous 2.1.2 (/tmp/pip-autoremove/test/.env/lib/python3.10/site-packages)
    blinker 1.6.2 (/tmp/pip-autoremove/test/.env/lib/python3.10/site-packages)
    Jinja2 3.1.2 (/tmp/pip-autoremove/test/.env/lib/python3.10/site-packages)
        MarkupSafe 2.1.3 (/tmp/pip-autoremove/test/.env/lib/python3.10/site-packages)
    click 8.1.6 (/tmp/pip-autoremove/test/.env/lib/python3.10/site-packages)
    Werkzeug 2.3.6 (/tmp/pip-autoremove/test/.env/lib/python3.10/site-packages)
...
Found existing installation: Flask 2.3.2
Uninstalling Flask-2.3.2:
  Successfully uninstalled Flask-2.3.2
...

Usage

usage: pip3-autoremove [-h] [-L | -f] [-l] [ARG ...]

positional arguments:
  ARG           a Python package

options:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  -L, --leaves  list leaves (packages that are not used by any others)
  -f, --freeze  list leaves (packages that are not used by any others) in requirements.txt format
  -l, --list    list unused dependencies, but don't uninstall them

Installation

$ pip3 install only-pip3-autoremove
$ pip3 install git+https://github.com/JohnDevlopment/pip-autoremove.git