title: How to uninstall pip packages on Elastic Beanstalk
body: <p>How to uninstall pip packages on Elastic Beanstalk?</p>
  
  <p>We removed a package in our requirements.txt file, but we think the package is still there because its causing a namespace collision with another app we created with the exact same name.</p>
  
  <p>details:</p>
  
  <p>We used to have this package django-whatever. In our .py files, it was imported like</p>
  
  <pre><code>from whatever import something
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the package wasn't giving us enough control, so we rolled out our own package called whatever</p>
  
  <p>which we use like</p>
  
  <pre><code>from whatever import goodstuff
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>AWS EB now returns an error "cannot import goodstuff from whatever" which heavily implies that django-whatever is still installed even tho its not in requirements.txt</p>