Uninstalling Notes® silently

You can uninstall Notes® silently. The uninstall leaves each user's data directory and workspace intact to preserve data.

About this task

If you are uninstalling a multi-user install, log in as an administrator or root user.

Windows

About this task

You can uninstall Notes® silently from a Windows client as follows.

Procedure

  1. Ensure that Notes® is not running.
  2. Open a command prompt window.
  3. Change to the directory in which the installation package uninstaller resides or specify the full path to the MSI file.
  4. Run the uninstall command. Sample syntax is as follows, the MSI file name changes with each Notes® release:
    msiexec /x IBM Notes 9.0 Social Edition.msi /qn

Linux

About this task

You can uninstall Notes® silently from a Linux client as follows.

Procedure

  1. Ensure that Notes® is not running.
  2. Open a Linux shell.
  3. Change to the directory in which the uninstaller resides or specify the full path to the uninstaller.
  4. Depending on whether you used an rpm kit (SUSE or Red Hat platform) or a deb package (Ubuntu) to install Notes®, issue the appropriate commands to silently uninstall Notes®.
    • If you used an rpm kit, issue the following commands:

      sudo rpm -ev ibm_sametime

      sudo rpm -ev ibm_feedreader

      sudo rpm -ev ibm_activities

      sudo rpm -ev ibm_cae

      sudo rpm -ev ibm_opensocial

      sudo rpm -ev ibm_notes

    • If you used a deb package, issue the following commands:

      sudo dpkg -P ibm-sametime

      sudo dpkg -P ibm-feedreader

      sudo dpkg -P ibm-activities

      sudo dpkg -P ibm-cae

      sudo dpkg -P ibm-opensocial

      sudo dpkg -P ibm-notes