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Using pip I am only able to uninstall for a few versions. I am fairly new to this, so please let me know if there is some way of deleting it. I am currently using Ubuntu 20.04. I had previously installed the packages with pip itself. But now pip no longer points to those versions. I tried commands like pip3.6 uninstall package python3.6 -m pip uninstall package

but none of that is even being recognised as a command. I do not wish to uninstall the python installation itself, just the various packages that I installed by myself when using those various versions.

I have installed python3.6 version as I can see it under my /usr and home directory, however when I run this python3.6 -m pip -V or python3.6 -m pip list I get the following output

Command 'python3.6' not found, did you mean:

command 'python3.9' from deb python3.9 (3.9.0-5~20.04)
  command 'python3.8' from deb python3.8 (3.8.5-1~20.04.2)


Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
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Do not - ever - remove a python version if you did not install it yourself. Ubuntu has tons of scripts running in python - therefore it needs a defined python environment. There are a lot of "I've removed python now I have a problem" questions in this forum - due to a removal of the "official" python environment.

You always can install additional versions via pip and remove them. And you can set those as default version

Edit Just of today python V3.8.5 is the current "offical" version of Ubuntu 20.04

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