Unable to upgrade blinker

[bilal-aamer]

I want to upgrade blinker like pip install --upgrade blinker and it throws me the following error.

ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'blinker'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

[metrizable]

@bilal-aamer thanks for reporting this issue.

The error indicates that blinker is brought in by the OS platform as an apt package. If you want to install a newer version via pip, you'll have to remove the apt package and pip install your desired blinker version. I was able to successfully do so.

As a call-out, removing an OS package, however, may have some unforeseen outcomes of its deps, so YMMV.