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Chapter 9. Uninstalling Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio

You may want to uninstall a specific version of Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio if you have concluded development in one version, say 10.x, and you now want to install a newer version, say 11.x. However, you can have more than one version of Installer-installed Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio or Eclipse-installed Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio on your system, provided you have these versions located in different directories.

Note

You can not have more than one version of RPM-installed Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio on the same system.

There are three ways to uninstall Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, depending on how you installed it. The following sections describe the three methods:

9.1. Uninstalling Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio Installed Using the Installer

To uninstall Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio:

  1. Ensure that Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio is not running.
  2. On the command line, navigate to path/to/JBoss Developer Studio/Uninstaller.

  3. On the command line, type: 

    $ java -jar uninstaller.jar

  4. In the IzPack Uninstaller dialog box:

    1. Click the Force the deletion of <path_to_JBoss Developer Studio_directory> check box, to remove the entire Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio installation directory. If this is not selected, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio will be uninstalled but some files will be left as is in the installation directory.
    2. Click Uninstall.
  5. After the progress bar shows Finished, click Quit to close the Uninstaller dialog box.

Figure 9.1. Uninstall JBoss Developer Studio

Uninstall JBoss Developer Studio

9.2. Uninstalling Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio Installed in Eclipse

Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio can be uninstalled using the following steps regardless of whether it was installed via Eclipse Marketplace or the update .zip file.

To uninstall Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio:

  1. Start Eclipse Oxygen.
  2. Click Help > Eclipse Marketplace.
  3. In the Eclipse Marketplace window, Find field, type Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio and then click Go.
  4. Click Installed in the Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio <version> section.

  5. Click the Update drop-down list to view the options available. Click Uninstall.

    Figure 9.2. Uninstall Button

    Uninstall JBoss Developer Studio
  6. In the Confirm Selected Features window, ensure that Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio <version> is selected and click Confirm.

  7. Click Finish.

    Figure 9.3. Confirm Selected Feature Deletion

    Confirm Selected Feature Deletion
  8. In the Software Updates dialog box, click Yes to restart Eclipse for the changes to take effect.

9.3. Uninstalling Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio Installed Using RPM

To uninstall Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio completely, including Eclipse and the included plugins, use the following command: 

# yum remove rh-eclipse47\*

To uninstall only Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio and leave Eclipse and other plugins as is, use the following command: 

# yum remove rh-eclipse47-devstudio