Monday, May 10, 2010

Websphere uninstallation error

Often when we remove the /opt/IBM folder manually to remove a Websphere installation (for reinstalling) this error pops up during the second attempt

Specify a different directory or perform a manual uninstall to remove all packages before reinstalling to the same directory

This happens because the WAS installation is stored in more locations than just the /opt folder. To clean up the system after you accidentally remove the /opt folder,(kill all java processes first)

1) rpm -qa |grep WS
and remove the rpms

2)remove the ~/.WASRegistry file.

3) remove vpd.properties.

1 comment:

kuben said...

Hi.. If all the above 3 steps didn't worked.. then give a try installRegistryUtils.sh -cleanAll

hope this will resolve ur issue.. cheers.