As a layman we cannot go ahead and uninstall a PKG.īut at the same time there are command lines that can do a complete reverse engineering on PKG files. What is done in PKG scripts is always upto the PKG creator.
#How to uninstall a program on mac osx 10 install
A PKG/MPKG can have certain pre install and post install scripts associated with that. The concept of PKG uninstallation is not there in OS X.
Once you've uninstalled the files, you can remove the system record of that package: $ sudo pkgutil -forget package-name.pkg But some people will need to tweak the command line, so it's better to be clear!) $ pkgutil -only-dirs -files package-name.pkg | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -n 1 -0 -p sudo rmdir (You should be safe with rmdir too, because it will only remove empty directories. p causes xargs to prompt for confirmation, but don't get trigger-happy. The list of directories output by pkgutil -files can include important shared directories like usr, which you don't want to remove. $ pkgutil -only-files -files package-name.pkg | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -n 1 -0 -p sudo rmīe careful of the next (final) step, which removes directories. Use this to list the package's installed files: $ pkgutil -files package-name.pkgĪfter visually inspecting the list of files you can do something like this to remove them: $ cd / # assuming the package location is / To find the package location (the root directory that all file listings will be relative to), use $ pkgutil -pkg-info package-name.pkg
I'm modifying answer, which didn't work for me.Īt a command line, use the following to find the desired package name: $ pkgutil -pkgs | grep -i is a string you expect to see in the package name.
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