Uninstall Installation Manager using wizard mode

Follow these steps to remove Installation Manager from your workstation. Before we uninstall Installation Manager, we must uninstall all the packages that were installed by Installation Manager. Close Installation Manager before you start the uninstall process.

We 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.
• UNIX:

  1. Click the Uninstall IBM Installation Manager icon on your desktop.

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

     1. Open a terminal window.
     2. 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 we did not use a default location for the agent data directory, see Agent data location.

        Operating system	Administrator installation	Nonadministrator installation	Group installation
        Windows	C:\ProgramData\IBM\Installation Manager	C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\IBM\Installation Manager	Not available.
        UNIX	/var/ibm/InstallationManager	/user_home/var/ibm/InstallationManager	/user_home/var/ibm/InstallationManager_Group
        IBM i	/QIBM/UserData /InstallationManager	/user_home/var/ibm/InstallationManager	Not available.
        IBM z/OS	/InstallationManager/appdata	/user_home/InstallationManager/appdata	/InstallationManager/appdata
        OS X	/Applications/IBM/Installation Manager	/Users/user_home/var/IBM/Installation Manager	/Users/user_home/var/IBM/InstallationManager_Group

     3. Run the command: uninstall

  3. In the Uninstall wizard, click Next > Uninstall.

  4. When the process finishes, we are prompted to log out of your system.

  If we 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:

  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 our computer.

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