You can uninstall Notes® silently. The uninstall leaves each user's data directory and workspace intact to preserve data.

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If you are uninstalling a multi-user install, log in as an administrator or root user.

Windows

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You can uninstall Notes silently from a Windows™ client as follows.

Procedure

1. Ensure that Notes is not running.

2. Open a command prompt window.

3. Change to the directory in which the installation package uninstaller resides or specify the full path to the MSI file.

4. Run the uninstall command. Sample syntax is as follows, the MSI file name changes with each Notes release:

msiexec /x "IBM Notes 9.0 Social Edition.msi /qn

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You can uninstall Notes silently from a Linux™ client as follows.

Procedure

1. Ensure that Notes is not running.

2. Open a Linux shell.

3. Change to the directory in which the uninstaller resides or specify the full path to the uninstaller.

4. Depending on whether you used an rpm kit (SUSE or Red Hat platform) or a deb package (Ubuntu) to install Notes, issue the appropriate commands to silently uninstall Notes.

• If you used an rpm kit, issue the following commands:

  sudo rpm -ev ibm_sametime

  sudo rpm -ev ibm_feedreader

  sudo rpm -ev ibm_activities

  sudo rpm -ev ibm_cae

  sudo rpm -ev ibm_opensocial

  sudo rpm -ev ibm_notes

• If you used a deb package, issue the following commands:

  sudo dpkg -P ibm-sametime

  sudo dpkg -P ibm-feedreader

  sudo dpkg -P ibm-activities

  sudo dpkg -P ibm-cae

  sudo dpkg -P ibm-opensocial

  sudo dpkg -P ibm-notes

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