Uninstall Products Using IBM webMethods Installer

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Uninstall EntireX

When shutting down products, also shut down all EntireX Brokers, RPC Servers, and customer applications that use EntireX libraries. For instructions, see the product documentation.

If you are going to uninstall from a UNIX system, and you used sudo to register daemons and set file permissions during or after installation, you must also use sudo to unregister daemons and remove file permissions, as follows:

  • If you are not going to use an uninstallation script to uninstall, you can choose the uninstaller option to perform this task, or you can perform this task before starting the uninstaller by executing the script Software AG_directory/bin/beforeUninstallAsRoot.sh with root permission (that is, call the script using the root user account or the sudo utility.
  • If you are going to use an uninstallation script, the uninstaller cannot execute the script because it does not store the sudo password, for security reasons. You must execute the script yourself before starting the uninstaller.

Uninstall All Other Products

Follow the instructions in Using IBM webMethods Installer, with the additional guidelines below.

If you are going to uninstall IBM webMethods Designer Eclipse, and you want to review or preserve Eclipse installation information, do so before starting the uninstaller, because the uninstaller will delete the entire IBM webMethods Designer installation directory. User-created data that is stored in other directories, such as your workspace, will remain untouched.

If you are going to uninstall from a Mac OS or other UNIX system, and you used sudo to register daemons and set file permissions during or after installation, you must also use sudo to unregister daemons and remove file permissions, as follows:

  • If you are not going to use an uninstallation script to uninstall, you can choose the uninstaller option to perform this task, or you can perform this task before starting the uninstaller by executing the script Software AG_directory/bin/beforeUninstallAsRoot.sh with root permission (that is, call the script using the root user account or the sudo utility.
  • If you are going to use an uninstallation script, the uninstaller cannot execute the script because it does not store the sudo password, for security reasons. You must execute the script yourself before starting the uninstaller.