title: How to remove the weight attribute?
body: <p>I'm running into a problem. I want to remove the weight attribute from the front-end of my Magento webshop, but it keeps telling me that the attribute is reserved by system.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The attribute code 'weight' is reserved by system. Please try another attribute code</p>
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  <p>I have tried multiple options to make it a normal attribute</p>
  
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  <li><p>Changing is_user_defined in table eav_attribute in the database to 1 (<a href="http://blog.chapagain.com.np/magento-how-to-delete-system-attribute/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blog.chapagain.com.np/magento-how-to-delete-system-attribute/</a>)</p></li>
  <li><p>Edit in app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/etc/config.xml <code>&lt;weight&gt;&lt;external&gt;1&lt;/external&gt;&lt;required&gt;1&lt;/required&gt;&lt;/weight&gt;</code> to <code>&lt;weight&gt;&lt;external&gt;1&lt;/external&gt;&lt;required&gt;0&lt;/required&gt;&lt;/weight&gt;</code> (<a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/21975/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/21975/</a>)</p></li>
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  <p>Is there another solution?</p>