How to uninstall Rust that was installed via rustup?

Question

I installed Rust on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine through

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

as can be seen on the Installation Page.

How do I now uninstall Rust?

Velure

Answer 1

To uninstall rustc, rustup and cargo from my Ubuntu 16.04 installation, I did:

rustup self uninstall

and it worked.

Velure

This also removes all installed rust programs in $HOME/.cargo/bin. Basically it deletes the whole $HOME/.cargo folder. – Buffington

This doesn't work on my arch Linux Arm, error: self-uninstall is disabled for this build of rustup, so you'll have to use package manager – Marelda

@0xB00B I mean, the problem goes away if you used a package manager to install rustup in the first place. Uninstalling a package installed via a package manager is trivial. It's a problem if you didn't; lots of distros don't package rustup in a package manager, in which case, self-uninstall is the only way to remove it, because the installation was most likely via the shell file – Renegado

@Renegado stands with Ukraine it wasn't available through package manger in my case. – Marelda

Answer 2

If you pay attention to the message you get while installing, you will find the command you are looking for. It's rustup self uninstall.

Svetlana

My installation command doesn't show me this. – Clothespin

@ShipluMokaddim I don't remember this screen only when tried to skip interactive part. In one cloud IDE i've got error that "/dev/tty" device not found. Looked into installer script and found that error is related to one question during installation (typical install and something else). Script also contains comment that "-y" argument (as I remember) will skip interactive part and run typical installation. On local devices I've seen it both in windows and linux. Probably you skiped something :D – Ideal

@RyoidenshiAokigahara I solved it 3 weeks ago. Don't remember now how. But I think your comment has a good point. – Clothespin

Answer 3

As for Linux based operating systems, the following command can be used:

rustup self uninstall

this will remove all the Rust Compiler, Tool Chains and Data including rustc and cargo If you're one window this should wok, but you have to remove C++ build tools manually if you want to remove it as well, though I would never recommend.

Highflown

Works on Mac OS – Koehler

Answer 4

You can do this without manually deleting the old rust binaries by uninstalling cargo and then auto-removing its now un-needed dependencies:

sudo apt remove cargo
sudo apt autoremove

Salmanazar

Not sure how this would work if Rust was installed via rustup. This implies both that you're running a Debian-based distro, and that it was installed via apt. – Twinscrew