Uninstalling Installation Manager by using wizard mode

Follow these steps to remove IBM® Installation Manager from your workstation.

Before you begin

Before you uninstall Installation Manager, you must uninstall all the packages that were installed by Installation Manager. Close Installation Manager before you start the uninstall process.

About this task

You must log on to your workstation with a user account that has the same privileges as the user account used to install Installation Manager.

Procedure

To uninstall Installation Manager:

Windows:
1. Open the Control Panel and click Add or Remove Programs.
2. On the Change or Remove Programs page, select IBM Installation Manager and click Remove.
3. In the Add or Remove Programs window, click Yes to continue with the removal.

Linux and UNIX:

Click the Uninstall IBM Installation Manager icon on your desktop.

If the icon is not present, take the following steps:

Open a terminal window.

Change to the \\agent_data_directory\uninstall directory for Installation Manager. For the default locations for the agent data directory, see the following table. If you did not use a default location for the agent data directory, see Agent data location.

Table 1. Default location of Agent Data direcotry
Operating system	Administrator installation	Nonadministrator installation	Group installation
Windows XP Professional	`C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\IBM\Installation Manager`	`C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\IBM\Installation Manager`	Not available.
Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 2012	`C:\ProgramData\IBM\Installation Manager`	`C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\IBM\Installation Manager`	Not available.
Linux and UNIX	`/var/ibm/InstallationManager`	`/user_home_directory/var/ibm/InstallationManager`	`/user_home_directory/var/ibm/InstallationManager_Group`
IBM i	`/QIBM/UserData /InstallationManager`	`/user_home_directory/var/ibm/InstallationManager`	Not available.
IBM z/OS®	`/InstallationManager/appdata`	`/user_home_directory/InstallationManager/appdata`	`/InstallationManager/appdata`
OS X operating system	`/Applications/IBM/Installation Manager`	`/Users/user_home_directory/var/IBM/Installation Manager`	`/Users/user_home_directory/var/IBM/InstallationManager_Group`

Run the command: uninstall

In the Uninstall wizard, click Next > Uninstall.
When the process finishes, you are prompted to log out of your system.

Note: If you receive an error after uninstalling on Solaris, close the dialog box with the error message. Next, manually delete the following empty directories: /var/ibm/InstallationManager/uninstall and /var/ibm/InstallationManager.

OS X operating system:
1. Open Finder.
2. Navigate to the Installation Manager data directory.
3. Click Uninstall.app to start the uninstall process.

Results

You uninstalled Installation Manager from your computer.

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