Uninstalling the Linux on System z client

You can use the following procedures to uninstall the IBM Spectrum Protect Linux on System z® client.

Before you begin

You must be logged in as root to install the product. Uninstall the packages in the order shown.

About this task

To uninstall a previously installed IBM Spectrum Protect client package, enter the following commands to remove the packages for journal-based backup, the filepath component, the backup-archive client, the API, and the IBM® Global Security Kit (GSKit).

Tip: The version number of the packages is not needed for uninstall.

Procedure

To uninstall the journal-based backup components only, remove both packages (journal-based backup and filepath). The TIVsm-JBB package is dependent on the filepath package. If you use two separate rpm -e commands to uninstall the components one at a time, uninstall the TIVsm-JBB package first.
```
rpm -e TIVsm-JBB TIVsm-filepath
```
To remove the package that performs file-restore operations by using the web user interface, enter the following command:
```
rpm -e TIVsm-WEBGUI
```

Uninstall the backup-archive client packages:

If you installed the optional TIVsm-BAcit package, uninstall it before you uninstall the client:
```
rpm -e TIVsm-BAcit
```
Uninstall the backup-archive client.
```
rpm -e TIVsm-BA
```

Note: If language packages are installed in a Version 7.1.2 or earlier client, you must remove them before you remove the API package. Enter the following command, and replace xx_xx with the language code for each additional language that you installed. For a list of language code identifiers, see Table 1.

rpm -e TIVsm-msg.xx_xx

Table 1. Language pack identifiers
Language	Language identifier
Czech	CS_CZ
French	FR_FR
German	DE_DE
Hungarian	HU_HU
Italian	IT_IT
Japanese	JA_JP
Korean	KO_KR
Polish	PL_PL
Portuguese	PT_BR
Russian	RU_RU
Spanish	ES_ES
Traditional Chinese (EUC)	ZH_CN
Traditional Chinese Big5	ZH_TW

Uninstall any products that are dependent on the API, such as IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases and IBM Spectrum Protect for Mail. Any API-dependent products must be uninstalled before you uninstall the API package. If you uninstall an API-dependent product, you must reinstall it after you install a newer version of the backup-archive client and API packages. Consult the documentation of the dependent product to determine what you need to do to prevent data loss when you uninstall and reinstall the products.
1. If you installed the optional API common inventory package (TIVsm-APIcit), uninstall it before you uninstall the API package. Use the following command to uninstall the package:
```
rpm -e TIVsm-APIcit
```
2. Uninstall the API package by using the following command:
```
rpm -e TIVsm-API64
```
To remove the GSKit 64-bit package, enter the following command:
```
rpm -e gskcryp64 gskssl64
```