How to uninstall GVM

Question

I use GVM to manage my Groovy/Grails environment.

How do I uninstall GVM and all the candidates currently installed?

I suspect one would simply just delete the ~/.gvm directory. Surprisingly the GVM website doesn't seem to mention how to do this, nor is there documentation to confirm how this is done.

Promiscuity

Answer 1

Deleting the ~/.gvm directory and removing the lines:

#THIS MUST BE AT THE END OF THE FILE FOR GVM TO WORK!!!
[[ -s "~/.gvm/bin/gvm-init.sh" && ! $(which gvm-init.sh) ]] && source "~/.gvm/bin/gvm-init.sh"

From ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.profile), ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc should do it (assuming a default install)

Capitalism

Will this also delete any jars/libraries that were downloaded for previously developed grails projects? I'm curious as to where grails installs its dependencies. – Promiscuity

No, they will be in the ~/.grails folder as normal. And Groovy Grapes are in ~/.groovy/grapes – Capitalism

Answer 2

• Un-install Groovy/Grail: gvm uninstall groovy/grail version
• Delete /.gvm directory and line in .profile or .bash (as steps above)
• Delete ~/.groovy directory (this is groovy log location)

That will clean up gvm and its environment.

Robtrobust

Thats the better answer. See gvm help for all available commands. – Yawn

That won't remove the directories from the PATH environment variable. The answer by @Capitalism mentions that too. – Israelisraeli