No "uninstall.sh" file in Netbeans folder

[papplo]

Hi I've just installed Netbeans IDE (C/C++) in my computer, but now I want to uninstall it for a reason I can't remember.
I've installed it by downloading the SH script from netbeans.org. I've already checked the documentation and it says there's an uninstall.sh file in Netbeans main folder, but there is no one:



Is there any other way to uninstall this program ?

[marko]

Did you install netbeans via the Fedora rpm file or did you install the "tar" ball file from netbeans.org?
If you did the Fedora official rpm file, then just do this to uninstall:

su -
<root password>
yum remove netbeans

The rpm version of netbeans doesn't have an uninstall.sh script because there's no reason for it. With the
rpm file the correct way to uninstall is to "yum remove" the package (or use PackageKit or if necessary the
last option is rpm -e netbeans )

The directory you seem to be showing in the png image is your ~/.nebeans configuration folder, but note
that both the Fedora rpm and the netbeans tar file from oracle will have similar configuration directories so I can't really tell what you did that way.

The uninstall.sh script does exist in the tar file version, in that case will be in the top level of the installation directory

I installed my netbeans 7.0.1 into ~/local/netbeans-7.0.1 and I was able to find the uninstall.sh script by running find:

find ~/local/netbeans-7.0.1 -name "uninstall.sh"
netbeans-7.0.1/uninstall.sh

[papplo]

Originally Posted by marko

Did you install netbeans via the Fedora rpm file or did you install the "tar" ball file from netbeans.org?
If you did the Fedora official rpm file, then just do this to uninstall:

The rpm version of netbeans doesn't have an uninstall.sh script because there's no reason for it. With the
rpm file the correct way to uninstall is to "yum remove" the package (or use PackageKit or if necessary the
last option is rpm -e netbeans )

The directory you seem to be showing in the png image is your ~/.nebeans configuration folder, but note
that both the Fedora rpm and the netbeans tar file from oracle will have similar configuration directories so I can't really tell what you did that way.

The uninstall.sh script does exist in the tar file version, in that case will be in the top level of the installation directory

I installed my netbeans 7.0.1 into ~/local/netbeans-7.0.1 and I was able to find the uninstall.sh script by running find:

I installed it via .sh script.

[root@pc1 pablo]# yum remove netbeans
Complementos cargados:langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Configurando el proceso de eliminación
No hay nada concordante con el argumento: netbeans

I've already tried uninstalling via 'yum uninstall', and that's what it says(sorry it's in spanish, it says there's no program installed called 'netbeans').
Also tried by running 'find' but still nothing

[marko]

Yeah, if you didn't install netbeans by rpm file than there's no way yum would know about it. I was just asking since I didn't know how you installed it. That means you used the install script from oracle.

You could find where your installation directory is by using the locate system in Fedora:

locate -b netbeans.css

locate isn't the greatest for finding files because it matches to any substring in the file path, you can reduce the noise from it a bit by adding the basename -b option (like above). This makes it only match to the last part of the file path. So I picked a uniquely named file (netbeans.css) I see in my netbeans install directory that's unlikely to exist elsewhere. This should show you where your netbeans is. Then you can use that to do the recursive remove I show at the end of this post (be careful).

I don't know why your netbeans-7.0 directory is missing its uninstall.sh script. I have it in mine.

I have an extra machine with no netbeans on it, I reran the "netbeans-7.0-ml-linux.sh" script on it and installed netbeans to my ~/local/netbeans-7.0 directory ( ~/local already existed, I just had it make netbeans-7.0 in it). When it's done there's a big "uninstall.sh" script in it (see bold):

cd ~/local
ls -l netbeans-7.0

drwx------. 6 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:12 apisupport/
drwx------. 2 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:11 bin/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 6726 Apr 7 21:29 CREDITS.html
-rw-rw-r--. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 1770 Apr 7 21:29 DISTRIBUTION.txt
drwx------. 2 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:11 etc/
drwx------. 10 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:12 harness/
drwx------. 8 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:12 ide/
drwx------. 9 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:12 java/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 2117 Apr 7 21:30 LEGALNOTICE.txt
-rw-rw-r--. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 79587 Apr 7 21:30 LICENSE.txt
-rw-rw-r--. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 34118 Apr 7 21:30 moduleCluster.properties
drwx------. 8 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:12 nb/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 15822 Apr 7 21:30 netbeans.css
drwx------. 8 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:11 platform/
drwx------. 8 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:12 profiler/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 5496 Apr 7 21:30 README.html
drwx------. 3 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:11 ruby/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 161704 Apr 7 21:30 THIRDPARTYLICENSE.txt
-rwx--x--x. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 1856512 Sep 12 18:12 uninstall.sh*
drwx------. 5 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:11 websvccommon/

I think you're getting confused with the configuration directory, the netbeans installation also creates a hidden directory in your home directory called .netbeans that's only for user customization, configuration and plugins. That way you can update from one version to the next and not lose your customizations. The .netbeans directory should look something like this:

cd
ls -al .netbeans

drwx------. 4 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 May 12 14:11 ./
drwx------. 62 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 12 18:11 ../
drwx------. 23 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 Sep 9 16:02 6.9/
drwx------. 20 schlemo1 schlemo1 4096 May 24 11:32 7.0/
-rw-------. 1 schlemo1 schlemo1 36 Mar 31 15:38 .superId

I have a 6.9 and a 7.0 since I've had two versions on there.

If you just want to totally get rid of netbeans, you don't really need the uninstaller, just do:

rm -fr ~/.netbeans
rm -fr <path to where you installed netbeans>

then go in your ide menu editor and remove the netbeans launcher.

Mark

[Ashraf]

Hello, i did face this problem but i could solve it...

Actually, if you remove those file , you didn't uninstall the netbeans coz it's only a configuration file

you can do to /usr/local/netbeans-7.0 and you will find the uninstall script, write ./unistall that will open the uninstaller wizard which include options to uninstall the GlassFish and Apachetomcat.

Remember you have to run the unistall script as a root using sudo ./uninstall.sh or sudo su then ./uninstall.sh

thanks