title: Safely removing program from usr/local/bin on Mac OSX 10.6.8?
body: <p>So I've been having a lot of trouble lately with a messy install of Scrapy. While I was learning the command line, I ended up installing with pip and then easy_install at the same time. Idk what kinda mess that made. </p>
  
  <p>I tried the command <code>pip uninstall scrapy</code>, and it gave me the following error:</p>
  
  <p><code>OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Scrapy-0.22.0-py2.6.egg/EGG-INFO/dependency_links.txt'</code></p>
  
  <p>so, I followed the path and deleted the text file... along with anything else that said "Scrapy" within that path. There were two versions in the <code>/site-packages/</code> directory. </p>
  
  <p>When I tried again with the  <code>pip uninstall scrapy</code> command, I was given the following error:</p>
  
  <p><code>Cannot uninstall requirement scrapy, not installed</code></p>
  
  <p>That felt too easy, so I went exploring through my directory hierarchy and I found the following in the <code>usr/local/bin</code> directory:</p>
  
  <p><code>-rwxr-xr-x   1 greyelerson  staff       173 Jan 21 06:57 scrapy*</code></p>
  
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  <p>Up until this point, I've resisted the urge to just delete it. But I know that those folders are hidden by Apple for a reason... </p>
  
  <p>1.) Is it safe to just delete it? </p>
  
  <p>2.) Will that completely remove Scrapy, or are there more files that I need to remove as well? (I haven't found any robust documentation on how to <em>remove</em> Scrapy once it's installed)</p>