How do you completely remove Ionic and Cordova installation from mac?

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How can I remove Cordova and ionic installation from my Mac completely? I am running mac os Yosemite 10.10.2

score 77 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 03 '15 at 09:15

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BlueBell's answer is right, you can do it by:

npm uninstall cordova ionic

Are you planning to re-install it? If you feel something's wrong which is causing problems then you should update npm and clean npm's cache.

npm cache clean -f
npm install npm -g

If problems still persist, I'd suggest re-install of NPM and Node.

npm uninstall node
apt-get purge npm
apt-get install npm
npm install node -g

Let me know if you face issues in the process.

answered Apr 03 '15 at 09:15

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apt-get is not available for OS X. How can purge npm. I can install npm using Homebrew. – Syed Tariq Feb 17 '16 at 15:11
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Even after I run 'nom uninstall cordova ionic', it's still there. I can type ionic -v and get a version or type ionic serve and it still executes. I need to uninstall it completely. – Chuck Krutsinger May 31 '19 at 23:17

score 74 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 06 '17 at 16:18

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To uninstall Ionic and Cordova:

sudo npm uninstall -g cordova
sudo npm uninstall -g ionic

To install:

sudo npm install -g cordova

edited Dec 06 '17 at 16:18

bruntime

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answered May 25 '15 at 12:32

Lokesh Patel

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Other answers did not have the required -g on the command line. Your version worked fine for me. Thanks! – Saeed D. May 05 '16 at 18:59
@SaeedD That is because you have installed Cordova using -g which means globally. Otherwise -g wouldn't have needed. – Murshid Ahmed Aug 08 '16 at 07:03
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it worked for me to get uninstall the setup form my machine. – S.Yadav Nov 11 '16 at 06:33

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 28 '17 at 11:44

Command to remove Cordova and ionic

For Window system
- npm uninstall -g ionic
- npm uninstall -g cordova
For Mac system
- sudo npm uninstall -g ionic
- sudo npm uninstall -g cordova
For install cordova and ionic
- npm install -g cordova
- npm install -g ionic

Note:

If you want to install in MAC System use before npm use sudo only.
And plan to install specific version of ionic and cordova then use @(version no.).

eg.

sudo npm install -g cordova@6.0.0

sudo npm install -g ionic@2.1.18

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered May 26 '21 at 15:37

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Try that. Worked for me.

npm uninstall -g @ionic/cli

answered May 26 '21 at 15:37

Maizied Hasan Majumder

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 22 '18 at 14:58

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If you want to delete ionic and cordova at same time.Run this code in cmd

npm uninstall -g ionic cordova

answered Mar 22 '18 at 14:58

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Ramesh Murugesan · Answer 6 · 2015-04-03T12:59:49.330

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Here the command to remove cordova and ionic from your machine

npm uninstall cordova ionic

edited Apr 03 '15 at 12:59

answered Apr 03 '15 at 08:48

Ramesh Murugesan

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This looks like a comment on the question not an attempt at an answer; please post it as such or rewrite how you are answering. – rfornal Apr 03 '15 at 12:14

score 3 · Answer 7 · edited Nov 09 '17 at 19:57

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These commands worked for me:

npm uninstall -g cordova
npm uninstall -g ionic

edited Nov 09 '17 at 19:57

bruntime

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answered Aug 29 '16 at 01:35

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score 1 · Answer 8 · edited Nov 24 '16 at 04:58

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command to remove cordova and ionic

sudo npm uninstall -g ionic

edited Nov 24 '16 at 04:58

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answered Nov 24 '16 at 04:55

Rusahang Limbu

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Yusuf · Answer 9 · 2017-07-01T12:49:31.990

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You can use following command if you uninstall globally

npm uninstall -g cordova ionic

option g for global

if you want to uninstall from he drive then you can use following command

npm uninstall cordova ionic

edited Jul 01 '17 at 12:49

answered Jul 01 '17 at 09:59

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score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Jan 28 '20 at 10:38

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1) first remove cordova cmd

npm uninstall -g cordova

2) After that remove ionic

npm uninstall -g ionic

answered Jan 28 '20 at 10:38

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score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Feb 02 '21 at 09:54

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I found that I had to use:

npm uninstall @ionic/cli

to stop ionic from still being active.

answered Feb 02 '21 at 09:54

Capnross

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That worked for me (with -g switch) to remove globally on MacOS big sur. npm uninstall -g @ionic/cli – Sinan Ceylan Mar 23 '21 at 02:25

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Nov 09 '22 at 20:36

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for mac users, please try

sudo npm uninstall -g @ionic/cli

answered Nov 09 '22 at 20:36

Nibin Benjamin

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How do you completely remove Ionic and Cordova installation from mac?

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