Re: How to Uninstall Octave 5.0.1? - Windows 10

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: NickOutside 
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> Date: 2019/3/14, Thu 08:51
> Subject: How to Uninstall Octave 5.0.1? - Windows 10
> 
> First things first:
> 
> 1. Went to wiki page  here.
> <http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows>  
> 
> 2. Clicked this link:  Link <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/>  
> <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/t373247/OctWiki.png> 
> 
> 3. Installed Octave from this .zip file at the bottom:
> <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/t373247/Octave_Install.png> 
> 
> 
> I now want to uninstall Octave entirely. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear in
> my Add/Remove Program list. Additionally there is no uninstall.exe or
> similar file in the installation directory. 
> 
> Looking through the online documentation  here
> <https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Installing-and-Removing-Packages.html#Installing-and-Removing-Packages>
>   
> 
> on octave.org, the only mention of 'uninstalling' anything is in section
> 37.1 for 'Installing and Removing Packages'. 
> 
> Frankly, I'm wildly inexperienced in programming, and don't really know 
> what
> a 'package' even is. I see that the >>pkg list command will show 
> me a list
> of maybe 40 'packages' I have installed. Is uninstalling all the 
> packages
> the same as uninstalling Octave? Do I uninstall all the packages then just
> delete the installation directory?
> <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/t373247/InstallDir.png> 
> 
> 
> In my mind I'm thinking for example, 'When I install Microsoft Word it 
> is
> installed to a program directory, shows up in my add/remove programs, and
> when I click uninstall, all of its components are removed from my computer,
> and the associated program files deleted'. How do I perform the equivalent
> of this for Octave?


If you install from zip and you did not install by installer, 
there of course are no uninstaller.

Just delete folder where octave is installed from explorer.

Tatsuro