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

Question

How do I remove Cordova and ionic 1 and its dependency from my Ubuntu completely?. How to reinstall all again?

I tried npm uninstall -g cordova ionic but it is not working

I am getting this two error

npm WARN uninstall not installed in /home/gopi/node_modules: "cordova"
npm WARN uninstall not installed in /home/gopi/node_modules: "ionic"

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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The error actually says that your syntax is wrong for the command. Better try the commands individually:

For ionic:

$ npm cache clear
$ npm uninstall ionic

If the above command does not uninstall ionic try the one below.

$ sudo npm uninstall -g ionic

For Cordova, the command :

sudo npm uninstall cordova -g

Please note : The -g is after.

Refer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19523868/1904479

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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answered Mar 22 '16 at 09:18

Kailas

i tried the both anwer but i am not able to do it.I have tried those you reffered in my case – Mohan Gopi Mar 22 '16 at 09:46
It may means it's already uninstalled then, just try cordova --version and ionic --version? – Kailas Mar 22 '16 at 10:37
just try whereis cordova to get the installation path and try cd to the installation directory an try uninstalling it from there – Kailas Mar 22 '16 at 10:40
/opt/node/bin/cordova this is my cordova path i use cd /opt/node/bin and then used the command sudo npm uninstall cordova -g but i am getting the same error – Mohan Gopi Mar 22 '16 at 10:45
i referred this blog form my ionic installation https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2014/09/install-android-cordova-ionic-framework-ubuntu/ – Mohan Gopi Mar 22 '16 at 10:53
if your still seeing the version after removal (ionic -v) then you also need to delete it manually rm /usr/local/bin/ionic or wherever it resides. – Joel Davey Jan 03 '19 at 13:58

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '16 at 01:04

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The only thing that worked for me was to run with the -g before

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

answered Jun 29 '16 at 01:04

rpamaral25

What difference is your answer when compared to kailas answer. please answer something diffrent then others – Mohan Gopi Jun 29 '16 at 04:56
The command just worked for me with the -g before the name "cordova", and kailas said the opposite. – rpamaral25 Aug 02 '16 at 21:48
This worked for me. I had ionic2 beta installed and executing these commands helped me uninstalled them in Mac. – Ishara Amarasekera Aug 10 '16 at 06:10

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