Remove Packages from a Package Management Environment

DELETE /api/v1.2/package/<env ID>/remove_packages

Use this API to uninstall packages from an environment having Python 2.7/3.5 and R 3.3.

Required Role

The following users can make this API call:

• Users who belong to the system-user or system-admin group.
• Users who belong to a group associated with a role that allows updating an environment. See Managing Groups and Managing Roles for more information.

Parameters

Note

Parameters marked in bold are mandatory. Others are optional and have default values.

Parameter	Description
source_type	Specify python_package or r_package and it is mandatory while removing packages from an environment.
package_names	Specify the name of the package. To remove a specific version of the package, specify it in this format: <packagename>==<version-number>. For example, biopython==0.1. You can remove any number of packages as a comma-separated list.

Request API Syntax

curl -X DELETE -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: <API-TOKEN>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json"
-d '{"source_type": "<package type>", "package_names": "<packagename1>,<packagename2>,....,<packagenameN>"}'
  "https://api.qubole.com/api/v1.2/package/<envID>/remove_packages"

Note

The above syntax uses https://api.qubole.com as the endpoint. Qubole provides other endpoints to access QDS that are described in Supported Qubole Endpoints on Different Cloud Providers.

Sample API Request

Here is a sample API call for removing Python packages from an environment that has 120 as its ID.

curl -X DELETE -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: <API-TOKEN>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{"source_type": "python_package", "package_names": "numpy,bipython==0.1,tensorflow"}' \
     "https://api.qubole.com/api/v1.2/package/120/remove_packages"

Here is a sample API call for removing R packages from an environment that has 120 as its ID.

curl -X DELETE -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: <API-TOKEN>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{"source_type": "r_package", "package_names": "r-rserve,r-brew==1.0"}' \
     "https://api.qubole.com/api/v1.2/package/120/remove_packages"