xblock-utils - how to uninstall and reinstall (open edX Fullstack)

[prashant]

Hi,

In our open edx fullstack, there is some issue with installed version of xblock-utils as told here and it is suggested to uninstall the xblock-utils package via pip, and install the latest master from https://github.com/edx/xblock-utils.

We googled whole day and searched open edX docs, but could not find relevant information to uninstall and reinstall xblock-utils package. 

Anybody, if know the commands or link, can pls share with us?

Thank you very much in advance.

-Prashant Singh. 

[Xavier Antoviaque]

Hi Prashant,

 

This is also more a devops issue, so it also belongs to the openedx-ops@ ML - likely in the same thread.

 

But to uninstall a package, you can use "pip uninstall xblock-utils" (from the edxapp virtual environment - for running commands within fullstacks see https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/edX-Managing-the-Full-Stack ).

 

Although, for a production server, you shouldn't really be running commands manually like this, but instead use stateless throw-away VMs - ie here you would run ansible on a new VM with the right requirements, and swap the new VM instead of the old one, removing the need to uninstall anything. For how to specify custom requirements with ansible, see for example https://github.com/edx/configuration/blob/a0633784f33c1675c753fadffe928fe832d91b05/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml#L334-L343

 

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Xavier

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