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| author | Chris Akritidis <43294513+cakrit@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-02-08 11:27:19 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-02-08 11:27:19 +0100 |
| commit | f4464b4709def76cb2dd8fcb08cb04d1c4ce15e9 (patch) | |
| tree | c99514978ee84be6cede72d6268eb65d467cdf79 /packaging | |
| parent | 9fbf340bb4bae5460fa38f2d34c25a42489f5720 (diff) | |
Provide more precise uninstall instructions (#5347)
* Provide more precise uninstall instructions
Related to #5341
* Update UNINSTALL.md
Diffstat (limited to 'packaging')
| -rw-r--r-- | packaging/installer/UNINSTALL.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/installer/UNINSTALL.md b/packaging/installer/UNINSTALL.md index 511693b483..e86a3390e6 100644 --- a/packaging/installer/UNINSTALL.md +++ b/packaging/installer/UNINSTALL.md @@ -8,14 +8,19 @@ NETDATA_ADDED_TO_GROUPS A workflow for uninstallation looks like this: -1. Find your .environment file +1. Find your `.environment` file, which is usually `/etc/netdata/.environment` in a default installation. 2. If you cannot find that file and would like to uninstall netdata, then create new file with following content: ``` NETDATA_PREFIX="<installation prefix>" # put what you used as a parameter to shell installed `--install` flag. Otherwise it should be empty NETDATA_ADDED_TO_GROUPS="<additional groups>" # Additional groups for a user running netdata process ``` -3. Download [netdata-uninstaller.sh](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/packaging/installer/netdata-uninstaller.sh) and run it as follows: `netdata-uninstaller.sh --yes --env <path_to_environment_file>`. The default `path_to_environment_file` is `/etc/netdata`, it's the location of the file `.environment` that is used by the uninstaller. - +3. Download, chmod and run netdata-uninstaller.sh. +``` +wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata/master/packaging/installer/netdata-uninstaller.sh +chmod +x ./netdata-uninstaller.sh +./netdata-uninstaller.sh --yes --env <environment_file> +``` +The default `environment_file` is `/etc/netdata/.environment`. Note: This uninstallation method assumes previous installation with netdata-installer.sh or kickstart script. Currently using it when netdata was installed by a package manager can work or cause unexpected results. |