Uninstalling Validate

To avoid duplicate entries in the Windows Control Panel and incorrect plug-in version numbers in your IDEs, uninstall the current version of Validate before downgrading to a previous version.

Before you Uninstall

You must stop the Validate Servers first.

If you are uninstalling the Validate Server, in addition to stopping the servers, you should also make a backup copy of your projects_root directory and any configuration files you modified, such as kwfilter.conf). For Linux and Windows, compiler configuration files are located in <server_install>/config.

While the Windows version of the Validate Server package won't uninstall the projects_root directory or configuration files, it's a good idea to make a backup of these directories. For Linux systems, there is no automated uninstall, so make sure you back up your projects_root and any other data files you want to keep and store them outside your Server installation directory. Then you can delete the Server installation directory.

Uninstalling Validate from a Windows Machine

To remove a Validate software package:

1. From the Start menu, click Control Panel > Uninstall a program.
2. Select the uninstaller for the component that you want to uninstall.

Uninstalling on Linux

To uninstall on Linux, simply delete the Validate package from the installation directory.