Uninstalling Advanced Server on Linux v12
Note that after uninstalling Advanced Server, the cluster data files remain intact and the service user persists. You may manually remove the cluster data
and service user from the system.
Uninstalling on RHEL/OL/AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux
You can use variations of the rpm, yum
or dnf
command to remove installed packages. Note that removing a package does not damage the Advanced Server data
directory.
Include the -e
option when invoking the rpm
command to remove an installed package; the command syntax is:
Where package_name
is the name of the package that you would like to remove.
You can use the yum remove
or dnf remove
command to remove a package installed by yum
or dnf
. To remove a package, open a terminal window, assume superuser privileges, and enter the command:
On RHEL or CentOS 7:
On RHEL or Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux 8:
Where package_name
is the name of the package that you would like to remove.
yum
and RPM will not remove a package that is required by another package. If you attempt to remove a package that satisfies a package dependency, yum
or RPM will provide a warning.
Note
In RHEL or Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux 8, removing a package also removes all its dependencies that are not required by other packages. To override this default behavior of RHEL or Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux 8, you must disable the clean_requirements_on_remove
parameter in the /etc/yum.conf
file.
To uninstall Advanced Server and its dependent packages; use the following command:
On RHEL or CentOS 7:
On RHEL or Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux 8:
Uninstalling on Debian or Ubuntu
To uninstall Advanced Server, invoke the following command. The configuration files and data directory remains intact.
To uninstall Advanced Server, configuration files, and data directory, invoke the following command:
Uninstalling on SLES:
To uninstall Advanced Server, assume the identity of a root user and invoke the following command:
Updating Components on a SLES Host:
To update components installed with zypper, use the zypper update
command.