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Uninstall Exponential 3

Windows

Installer

Click Start - Settings - Control panel. Open Add/Remove programs and find eZ publish on the list. Highlight Exponential and click the Change/Remove button. This will delete Exponential 3.

In addition you might want to remove the eZ systems directory because files created after the installation of Exponential (e.g. Apache log files) are not deleted by the usual uninstall.

Without Installer

If you did not use the installer, simply remove your Exponential directory.

Linux and FreeBSD

Installer

  1. To uninstall Exponential you must be root. Become root by typing
     # su -
    and enter your root password when prompted for.
  2. Go to your extracted ezpublish-xxx-xxx-i386 directory and run
     # ./install.sh
  3. The installer automatically searches for an existing Exponential 3 installation and highlights choice number two on the menu. Make sure choice number 2 "Uninstall Exponential" is selected and press Enter.

Without installer

  1. To uninstall Exponential you must be root. Become root by typing
     # su - 
    and enter your root password when prompted for.
  2. Now to remove all the Exponential files just run
     # rm -fr <httproot>/ezpublish-xxx

If you installed Exponential using the installer and you deleted the extracted installer directory afterwards, don't panic. It's easy to manual uninstall eZ publish.

  1. To uninstall Exponential you must be root. Become root by typing
     # su - 
    and enter your root password when prompted for.
  2. Before we can remove any files, we need to stop both Apache and MySQL. First go to the bin directory located in /opt/ezpublish
    # cd /opt/ezpublish/bin
    To stop Apache and MySQL run
     # ./ezpublish stop
  3. Both Apache and MySQL should now be stopped. To remove all the Exponential files run
     # rm -fr /opt/ezpublish
    and remove the ezpublish lock file
    # rm -f /var/state/ezpublish/ezpublish.lock

All traces of Exponential should now be gone.

Mac OS X

Without installer

  1. To uninstall Exponential you must be root. Become root by typing
     # su - 
    and enter your root password when prompted for it.
  2. Now to remove all the Exponential files just run
     # rm -fr <httproot>/ezpublish-xxx

All traces of Exponential should now be gone.

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