Silently uninstall the Document Format Conversion Application from the Windows™ or Linux system.
About this task
To perform a silent uninstallation, complete the following
steps:
Procedure
- For a single server or the first node in a Conversion cluster,
begin from the Conversion node itself, not from the Deployment Manager
node:
- Log in to the system where you installed IBM® Conversion service, with the user who runs
the server or cluster node process.
-
Open a command prompt and change it to the
conversion_install_root\installer directory, for example, on
Windows, it is C:\IBM\IBMConversion\installer, and on Linux, it is
opt/IBM/IBMConversion/installer.
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Run the uninstallation script: uninstall.bat(Windows) or
uninstall.sh (Linux).
If you do not specify the WebSphere® Application
Server administrative user ID and password in the command line, you are prompted to enter
them.
- For each additional cluster node server:
- Log in to the system where you installed the Conversion
server, with the user who runs the cluster node process.
-
Open a command prompt and change to the
conversion_install_root\installer directory, for example, on
Windows, it is C:\IBM\IBMConversion\installer, and on Linux, it is
opt/IBM/IBMConversion/installer.
-
Run the uninstallation script: uninstall_node.bat(Windows) or
uninstall_node.sh(Linux).
If you do not specify the WebSphere Application
Server administrative user ID and password in the command line, you are prompted to enter
them.
Note: If you run uninstallation scripts from the original installer folder, you must first
configure the cfg.properties file.
Note:
- You can set options to uninstallation scripts:
-wasadminID {name}
: Specifies the user name of WebSphere Application Server
administrator. Prompts the user to enter the name during uninstallation
if it is not specified.
-wasadminPW {password}
: Specifies the password
of WebSphere Application
Server administrator. Prompts the user to enter the password during
uninstallation if it is not specified.
- If the process fails and reports errors, remove the JAR files
that the Conversion server copied to the WebSphere Application Server plug-in folder.
JAR files that are related to the Conversion server have names such
as com.ibm.symphony.conversion.jarname.
Note: If
other processes (for example, Deployment Manager or another profile's
server) occupy these JAR files, you see errors such as The
process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
process. The failure does not affect other applications
in WebSphere Application
Server. However, to avoid further conflicts, it is best that you manually
remove these JAR files, after you stop all WebSphere Application Servers.
- After you uninstall, if soffice.exe and soffice.bin are
still running, stop them manually.
- After you uninstall, if nodeagent or WebSphere
Application Server cannot start normally, run
WAS_INSTALLPATH_Windows(for
example, C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer)\bin\osgiCfgInit.bat
on Windows, and
opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/osgiCfgInit.sh
on Linux) to clean the bundle cache,
and then start nodeagent or WebSphere Application Server
again.
Results
When you are finished uninstalling, check the conversion_uninstall.log
file for errors, and repeat this task if necessary. The log file is in the
ConversionCluster_INSTALLPATH directory, for example,
C:\IBM\IBMConversion)\logs
on Windows and opt/IBM/IBMConversion/logs
on Linux.