.. _`Uninstallation`:

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Uninstalling Vortex Platform
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The Vortex Platform includes a convenient uninstallation utility for either
complete or partial removal of the software from your system.

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Location of the uninstaller
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The Vortex Platform Setup Wizard creates the uninstaller in the VortexPlatform
installation directory, which was chosen during the running of
the Setup Wizard
(see :ref:`Choose a location for the Vortex Platform Installation`).

|windows|

On Windows, the default installation directory is

 ``C:\Program Files\ADLINK\Vortex_v<version>``

and the uninstaller is named ``uninstall-VortexPlatform_v<version>.exe``.

|linux|

On Linux, the default installation directory is

 ``/home/<user>/ADLINK/Vortex_v<version>``

and the uninstaller is named ``uninstall-VortexPlatform_v<version>.run``.


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Running the uninstaller
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Start the uninstaller
=====================

|windows|

Start the uninstaller either

* from the Windows Start menu:
  Start **>** ADLINK **>** Vortex_v *<version>* **>** Uninstall VortexPlatform_v *<version>*

  or

* navigate to the Vortex Platform installation directory
  (see `Location of the uninstaller`_ above) and run
  ``uninstall-VortexPlatform_v<version>.exe``.


|linux|

 Navigate to the Vortex Platform installation directory
 (see `Location of the uninstaller`_ above) and run
 ``uninstall-VortexPlatform_v<version>.run``.

|linux| |windows|

Once it starts, the operation of the uninstaller is the same on
both Windows and Linux platforms; the example screens shown in the
following steps are from a Windows system.

Choose whether to uninstall VortexPlatform completely or just some components
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.. _`Figure 12 Uninstall entire application or individual components`:

.. figure:: _images/vUNinstall_xp_001.png
   :alt: Uninstall entire application or individual components

   **Figure 12 Uninstall entire application or individual components**

.. raw:: latex

    \newpage
    
.. _`Figure 13 Choose components to uninstall`:

.. figure:: _images/vUNinstall_xp_002.png
   :alt: Choose components to uninstall

   **Figure 13 Choose components to uninstall**

The names of components which are not installed are greyed-out and
they cannot be selected.

Click **Next**.


In case you selected all the components, you are asked to confirm that you really want to uninstall the full Vortex Platform.

.. raw:: latex

    \newpage

.. _`Figure 14 Confirm uninstallation`:

.. figure:: _images/vUNinstall_xp_003.png
   :alt: Confirm uninstallation

   **Figure 14 Confirm uninstallation**
    

Click **Yes** to proceed, or **No** to cancel the operation.


Click YES
=========


A progress bar is displayed as the uninstallation proceeds.


.. _`Figure 15 Progress of uninstallation process`:

.. figure:: _images/vUNinstall_xp_004.png
   :alt: Progress of uninstallation process

   **Figure 15 Progress of uninstallation process**

.. raw:: latex

    \newpage

Uninstallation completed
========================


.. _`Figure 16 Uninstallation completed`:

.. figure:: _images/vUNinstall_xp_005.png
   :alt: Uninstallation completed

   **Figure 16 Uninstallation completed**



Click **OK**.



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