Uninstall Chef Workstation and its tools

The page documents how to uninstall Chef Workstation and its component tools.

Uninstall Chef Workstation

To uninstall Chef Workstation, use the hab pkg uninstall command:

hab pkg uninstall chef/chef-workstation

Uninstalling chef/chef-workstation removes all bundled component tools:

If you installed a Workstation tool as a standalone application, you can uninstall it without uninstalling the entire Workstation package.

To uninstall a Workstation tool, use the hab pkg uninstall command:

hab pkg uninstall <PACKAGE_IDENT>

Replace <PACKAGE_IDENT> with one of the following packages:

If you installed specific tool versions, you can uninstall a specific version without uninstalling all versions of the package.

To uninstall a specific package version, run the following command:

hab pkg uninstall <PACKAGE_IDENT>

Replace <PACKAGE_IDENT> with one of the following:

the package and version, for example chef/<PACKAGE>/<VERSION>.
the package version and build, for example chef/<PACKAGE>/<VERSION>/<BUILD_TIMESTAMP>