Failed to upgrade plotly using pip

Question

I'm trying to upgrade plotly which is right now at 2.0.7 and mine is 1.3 using the following

pip install plotly --upgrade

but I'm having this error

Installing collected packages:
 Found existing installation: plotly 1.3.1
Cannot uninstall 'plotly'. 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.

Like the error message says, `pip` cannot upgrade an install which was made by a tool which isn't `pip`. Upgrade using `distutils` or maybe use e.g. `virtualenv` to install a separate version which is independent from any system-wide install for your current project. — tripleee, Jul 09 '18 at 17:11
Possible duplicate of [rasa core installation existing package found](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50452344/rasa-core-installation-existing-package-found) — phd, Jul 09 '18 at 19:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 10 '18 at 08:41

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I solved the problem.

First of all I uninstall plotly using pip

pip uninstall plotly

Then using conda

conda uninstall plotly

After that, I installed the last version using pip

pip install plotly

I checked Plotly version

import plotly
plotly.__version__

which is right now 3.0.0

edited Jul 10 '18 at 08:41

eyllanesc

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answered Jul 10 '18 at 08:38

Khalil Mebarkia

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Failed to upgrade plotly using pip

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