Troubles uninstalling oh-my-zsh?

Question

I'm on OSX and want to switch back to my original zsh config from oh-my-zsh, however when I run the uninstall script it gives me an error:

$ sudo uninstall oh-my-zsh

>> Preparing Uninstall...
   Uninstall Began...
   Uninstall Failed...
   Reason: ErrorMissingBundle

Can anyone please tell me what this means? Thanks!

Porkpie

Answer 1

Have you tried just running the commands from uninstall script by hand? It's really straight forward: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/tools/uninstall.sh. For the most part it just removes OMZ and attempts to restore a back up file:

rm -rf ~/.oh-my-zsh
rm ~/.zshrc
cp ~/.zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Hocuspocus

Thanks for the help, I've already figured out how to do it by hand after a short while of figuring it out about a couple weeks or so ago. I never did it exactly in the given process, however my original zsh config works fine. – Porkpie

This works for me, but, if you want to reinstall zsh, you must copy manually the .zshrc file again – Sagacity

Be really careful with this! If you've modified your .zshrc a lot in the meantime since you installed ohmyzsh, simplying removing ~/.zshrc without backing it up first will cause you to lose all of your config. – Knuckleduster

This code messed up my terminal for some reason and it did not work but "sh ~/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh" works fine – Shrovetide

Carefull don't remove your .zshrc, it have nothing to do with omz – Selective

Answer 2

In new version, just run uninstall_oh_my_zsh from the command-line.

See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh#uninstalling-oh-my-zsh

Balcer

Answer 3

Try

/usr/bin/chsh -s /bin/bash
rm ~/.zshrc
brew uninstall zsh --force

Ranaerancagua

Answer 4

just run uninstall_oh_my_zsh
from here https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh#uninstalling-oh-my-zsh

Rollback

Answer 5

Updating this for wsl2 as per today state, instead of ~/.zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh it should be ~/.shell.pre-oh-my-zsh, complete list of commands that worked for me is:

rm -rf ~/.oh-my-zsh
rm ~/.zshrc
cp ~/.shell.pre-oh-my-zsh ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Chara

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Answer 6

Running uninstall_oh_my_zsh or manually sh ~/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh worked fine on mine.

Shrovetide

Answer 7

simply use the following command:

/usr/bin/chsh -s /bin/bash

Heartfelt

This just changes your default shell to be bash, 1) not uninstall OMZ, 2) doesn't restore Zsh, 3) makes it not even use Zsh anymore – Scutellation

Answer 8

I was unable to uninstall directly since I was getting zsh:command rm not found

so I did the following:

/usr/bin/chsh -s /bin/bash

on terminal preference, I switched back to the default Login shell and ran the below command

rm ~/.zshrc

brew uninstall zsh --force

Zeba

Answer 9

Jest use this commands

1st pkg uninstall termux-ohmyzsh 2nd rm-rf termux-ohmyzsh

2nd is remove file from your storage and 1st is remove package from your storage. Then check your file type ls its remove.

Decani