Uninstall script Linux

[Verhoeckx]

Where can I find the uninstall script to uninstall Zed from Linux (Fedora)?
If you provide an install script, you should also provide an uninstall script!

[olxandr]

On Arch i've managed to remove Zed after installing it using a script by deleting a ~/.local/zed.app directory. You can try to find it on your system too.

[Verhoeckx]

@vrnko: thanks!
I have done the same thing: looked in the shell script and removed all files and directories that were created during the install.

Personally, I find that if you (with you I mean in this case Zed Industries) provide an install script, you should also provide an uninstall script! You can't expect some to keep you application indefinitely.

[oovaa]

i also did this

omar@Latitude-5480  ~  find . -name 'zed'  ✔  292  11:49:40
./.cache/zed
find: ‘./.bun/.bun-crash’: Permission denied
./.config/zed
./.local/bin/zed
./.local/share/zed
omar@Latitude-5480  ~  cat ./.config/zed  1 ↵  293  11:49:54
cat: ./.config/zed: Is a directory
omar@Latitude-5480  ~  ls ./.config/zed  1 ↵  294  11:50:04
settings.json themes
omar@Latitude-5480  ~  rm -rf ./.config/zed ./.cache/zed ./.local/bin/zed ./.local/share/zed

[rmoyano]

I ended up removing the following directories, after analyzing https://zed.dev/install.sh script:

user@notebook:~$ rm -r .local/zed.app/ .local/bin/zed .local/share/zed/ .local/share/applications/dev.zed.Zed.desktop .config/zed/ .cache/zed/

[oovaa]

did the same

[tokisuno]

just did the same. super weird how there's no guide to uninstall for zed anywhere. why provide an install script without an uninstall one? super weird imo

[Verhoeckx]

I absolutely agree!

[liel-almog]

If a software does not have an uninstall guide you know something is up...

[tsanyqudsi]

Yes, it means that you should help build one.

[rogue-kitten]

in case someone is wondering how to do this on ubuntu:

• It installed a symbolic link to the executable in ~/.local/bin: remove it with:
  rm $HOME/.local/bin/zed # remove symlink to the executable

• It installed a .desktop launcher in $HOME/.local/share/applications/. The name is dev.zed.Zed.desktop, or at least starts with dev.zed.Zed. Delete that file.

• It created a directory "$HOME/.local/zed.app (or zed*.app depending on the version) and unpacked installation files in there. Delete that directory and its contents.

• Finally, you added the line export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH to your ~/.bashrc (or .zshrc) file. Open that file with a text editor and delete that line.

[abhigyantrips]

this answer comes from an askubuntu thread, available here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1520457/how-do-i-uninstall-zed-editor-from-my-ubuntu-24

[amithm7]

Have opened a PR to include this functionality in the install script

gh-16660

It should be easy as

curl https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh -s uninstall

once merged.

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If anyone wants to use it now, this should work:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zed-industries/zed/82ad7f2b/script/install.sh | sh -s uninstall

[nnikolov3]

I believe it worked well on Fedora 40

[agencytrailblazer]

Worked for me too!