Uninstall manually on AIX

If the uninstallation program is not present or an aborted installation did not create a complete and functional uninstallation program, you can manually uninstall WebSphere Portal.

To manually uninstall WebSphere Portal:

  1. Ensure that you are logged in as the root user before performing the uninstallation task; this step is especially important if you operate WebSphere Portal with a non-root user.

  2. Run the ./stopServer.sh WebSphere_Portal -username admin_userid -password foo task, from the WP_PROFILE/bin directory, to stop the WebSphere_Portal server.

  3. Verify that there are no other installations or uninstallations running.

  4. Locate and delete the /tmp/portalinstall.lockfile file if present.

      The Portal installer creates the portalinstall.lockfile to prevent two installations or uninstallations from running simultaneously. This is a temporary file and ordinarily gets deleted when the installation or uninstallation successfully completes, but it may not get deleted during an aborted or crashed procedure. Until this file is deleted, it will not be possible to initiate another installation.

  5. Uninstall WAS; if you need to manually uninstall it, refer to Uninstall manually.

  6. To edit the vpd.properties file and remove WebSphere Portal information:

    1. Open the /usr/lib/objrepos/vpd.properties file.

    2. Remove all lines that contain the $PORTAL_HOME installation string.

    3. Save and close the vpd.properties file.

  7. To edit the .ITLMRegistry file and remove WebSphere Portal information:

    1. Open the /root/.ITLMRegistry file.

    2. Remove all lines that contain the $PORTAL_HOME installation string.

    3. Save and close the .ITLMRegistry file.

  8. To remove WebSphere Portal entries from OS's native registry using the native registry tool:

    1. Search for the two entries in the AIXregistry:

      Entries to search for in the AIX registry

      Entry Results
      #lslpp -l | grep IBMWPS If there are no matching entries when using this command, no further action is required for this entry. The resulting list of packages are in the "IBMWPScore 7.0.0.0 COMMITTED ISMP installed entry" format.
      #lslpp -l | grep WebSphere PortalProduct If there are no matching entries when using this command, no further action is required for this entry. The resulting list of packages are in the "WebSphere PortalProduct 7.0.0.0 COMMITTED ISMP installed entry" format.

    2. Remove the #geninstall -u IBMWPScore and #geninstall -u WebSphere PortalProduct entries.

  9. Delete the $PORTAL_HOME directory tree and the WP_PROFILE directory tree.


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