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Uninstall Flox

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Here's how to completely remove flox from your system.

The following commands will completely remove Nix and the contents of /nix/* from the system.

Be sure to back up the system and/or extract any important Nix-related files and packages before continuing.

  1. Ensure no running processes are using /nix.

  2. Run:

    sudo /usr/local/share/flox/scripts/uninstall

Regardless of the current state, brew can be used to perform a full clean up: 

brew uninstall --force --zap flox

We recommend rebooting your system after uninstalling Flox.

The following commands will completely remove Nix and the contents of /nix/* from the system.

Be sure to back up the system and/or extract any important Nix-related files and packages before continuing.

You may be asked if the terminal has permission to modify contents of the disk.

Run:

brew uninstall flox

To remove all traces of flox including user preferences uninstall with:

brew uninstall --zap flox

In the case of recovering a partial install, a force and zap can help: 

brew uninstall --force --zap flox

We recommend rebooting your system after uninstalling Flox.

For use on Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian-based distributions.

The following command will completely remove Nix and the contents of /nix/* from the system.

Be sure to back up the system and/or extract any important Nix-related files and packages before continuing.

sudo apt-get purge flox

We recommend rebooting your system after uninstalling Flox.

For use on RedHat, CentOS, Amazon Linux, and other RPM-based distributions.

The following command will completely remove Nix and the contents of /nix/* from the system.

Be sure to back up the system and/or extract any important Nix-related files and packages before continuing.

sudo yum remove flox

We recommend rebooting your system after uninstalling Flox.

Output on success: 
$ sudo yum remove flox
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity

This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management.
You can use subscription-manager to register.

Dependencies resolved.
======================================================================
    Package       Architecture    Version              Repository   Size
======================================================================
Removing:
    flox          x86_64          1.4.3-1625910780     @@System     109 M

Transaction Summary
======================================================================
Remove  1 Package

Freed space: 109 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
    Preparing        :                                               1/1
    Running scriptlet: flox-1.4.3-1625910780.x86_64                  1/1
floxadm uninstall complete

    Erasing          : flox-1.4.3-1625910780.x86_64                  1/1
    Running scriptlet: flox-1.4.3-1625910780.x86_64                  1/1
    Verifying        : flox-1.4.3-1625910780.x86_64                  1/1
Installed products updated.

Removed:
    flox-1.4.3-1625910780.x86_64

Complete!

If you've installed flox to the system-wide default profile

sudo -H nix profile remove \
        '.*flox' \
        --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/default \
        --experimental-features "nix-command flakes"

Or, if you've installed flox to your own personal profile

nix profile remove \
        '.*flox' \
        --experimental-features "nix-command flakes"

Or, if you've declared Flox using a flake, remove the Flake

Please follow the instructions provided on either the Debian or RPM tab (whichever matches the existing Linux Distribution installed with your WSL) to uninstall Flox.