How to uninstall GVM

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I use GVM to manage my Groovy/Grails environment.

How do I uninstall GVM and all the candidates currently installed?

I suspect one would simply just delete the ~/.gvm directory. Surprisingly the GVM website doesn't seem to mention how to do this, nor is there documentation to confirm how this is done.

score 40 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 24 '13 at 19:07

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Deleting the ~/.gvm directory and removing the lines:

#THIS MUST BE AT THE END OF THE FILE FOR GVM TO WORK!!!
[[ -s "~/.gvm/bin/gvm-init.sh" && ! $(which gvm-init.sh) ]] && source "~/.gvm/bin/gvm-init.sh"

From ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.profile), ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc should do it (assuming a default install)

edited Oct 24 '13 at 19:07

tristano

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answered Feb 14 '13 at 15:32

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Will this also delete any jars/libraries that were downloaded for previously developed grails projects? I'm curious as to where grails installs its dependencies. – pestrella Feb 14 '13 at 15:48
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No, they will be in the `~/.grails` folder as normal. And Groovy Grapes are in `~/.groovy/grapes` – tim_yates Feb 14 '13 at 15:53

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '15 at 14:53

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Un-install Groovy/Grail: gvm uninstall groovy/grail version
Delete /.gvm directory and line in .profile or .bash (as steps above)
Delete ~/.groovy directory (this is groovy log location)

That will clean up gvm and its environment.

answered Apr 16 '15 at 14:53

LTN

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Thats the better answer. See gvm help for all available commands. – acsadam0404 Jun 23 '15 at 13:45
That won't remove the directories from the PATH environment variable. The answer by @tim_yates mentions that too. – Concrete Gannet Oct 26 '16 at 22:51

How to uninstall GVM

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