The following files are left behind: [...]/lib/python2.7 [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsigrok-0.5.0-py2.7.egg-info [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsigrok-0.5.0-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsigrok-0.5.0-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsigrok-0.5.0-py2.7.egg-info/not-zip-safe [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsigrok-0.5.0-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsigrok-0.5.0-py2.7.egg-info/namespace_packages.txt [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsigrok-0.5.0-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sigrok [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sigrok/core [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sigrok/core/_classes.so [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sigrok/core/classes.py [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sigrok/core/classes.pyc [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sigrok/core/__init__.py [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sigrok/core/__init__.pyc [...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsigrok-0.5.0-py2.7-nspkg.pth We cannot and should not remove lib/python2.7 and lib/python2.7/site-packages. The clearly sigrok-specific files are our responsibility to remove upon uninstall, though.