Installation guide

BEA Products Installation Guide 8-1
CHAPTER
8
Uninstalling the Software
The following sections provide procedures for uninstalling the software:
z About the Uninstallation Program
z Uninstalling Your Software in Graphical Mode
z Uninstalling Your Software in Console Mode
z Uninstalling Your Software in Silent Mode
z Reinstalling Your Software
About the Uninstallation Program
The following sections describe how to uninstall your BEA software on Windows and UNIX
systems. You can uninstall the software using graphical, console, or silent mode. To run the
graphical-mode uninstallation program, your console must support a Java-based GUI. If the
uninstallation program determines that your system cannot support a Java-based GUI, it
automatically starts running in console mode.
You can uninstall individual components of your product distribution, or the entire installation.
Dependency checking in the uninstaller ensures that the appropriate components are uninstalled.
The uninstallation program does not remove the BEA Home directory associated with the
installation, the JDK, or any user-created domains. Only the components that were installed by
the installation program can be removed. If you choose to uninstall the entire installation, the