Running the Uninstall Program

Rational includes an uninstall script in its config directory. You can uninstall the previous release of a product by running this script in the rational_dir directory.

Before you run uninstall, you must verify that your system startup file has a valid path to the Rational license daemon. See The License Manager . Open this file and search for the string "lmgrd".

If the file contains the following pathname, it is correct:

/rational_dir/base/cots/flexlm.7.0f/platform

If the pathname does not look like this, you must change the path.

You also need to kill -TERM a font server ("xfs") running from the release you plan to uninstall. Use ps to determine the process ID of the font server and then run kill -TERM process ID prior to uninstalling the release.

With the valid path to the Rose license daemon established and verification that the release font server is not running, you are ready to run uninstall. Running the script with no command line arguments causes it to display the list of products in the releases directory. You will be prompted for the product or suite to uninstall. If there is only one product, you will be asked for confirmation before the uninstall takes place. You must be the installer of the product to uninstall it.

If you have set up the Rose/ClearCase integration on the server running uninstall, you will see a message regarding "rose" and "rose_unit" merge and compare operations. The type manager(s) which manage these operations for "rose" and "rose_units" will include links to this release in relation to the merge and compare operations. The messages will include instructions describing how to correct the merge and compare links that become obsolete after uninstalling this release.

To run uninstall:

% cd rational_dir
% config/uninstall