Cannot uninstall ansible with pip or brew on Mac OSX

I cannot remove ansible from my machine.

If I run:

which ansible
/usr/local/bin/ansible

and

ansible --version
ansible 2.7.0 config file = /Users/josephroberts/.ansible.cfg configured module search path = ['/Users/josephroberts/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible python version = 3.9.12 (main, Mar 26 2022, 15:52:10) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)]

Then I can clearly see it's installed and functioning on my machine.

Yet I can't seem to uninstall it? What's going on here?

pip uninstall ansible
WARNING: Skipping ansible as it is not installed.

pip3 uninstall ansible
WARNING: Skipping ansible as it is not installed.

brew uninstall ansible
Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/ansible

1 Answer

I just encountered the same problem. I got the newer version by install without uninstall.

sudo -H pip3 install ansible