Uninstalling Editor Application

You can do a silent uninstall of Editor Application.

About this task

To do a silent uninstall, complete the following steps:

Procedure

  • For a single server or when uninstalling the first node in a HCL Docs cluster, the uninstall is performed from the HCL Docs node itself, not from the Deployment Manager node:
    1. Log in to the system where you installed HCL Docs, with the user who runs the server or cluster node process.
    2. Open a command prompt and change to the docs_install_root directory. Examples:
      • /opt/IBM/IBMDocs/installer (Linux)
      • C:\install\Docs\installer (Windows)
    3. Run the uninstall script:
      • ./uninstall.sh on Linux
      • uninstall.bat on Windows
  • For each additional cluster node:
    1. Log in to the system where you installed HCL Docs, with the user who runs the cluster node process.
    2. Open a command prompt and change to the docs_install_root directory. Examples:
      • /opt/IBM/IBMDocs/installer (Linux)
      • C:\install\Docs\installer (Windows)
    3. Run the uninstall script:
      • ./uninstall_node.sh on Linux
      • uninstall.bat on Windows
    Note:
    1. You can set options for the uninstall scripts:
      • -wasadminID {name}: Specifies the user name of WebSphere® Application Server administrator. Prompts the user to enter the name during uninstall if it is not specified.
      • -wasadminPW {password}: Specifies the password of WebSphere® Application Server administrator. Prompts the user to enter the password during uninstall if it is not specified.
    2. The HCL Docs product copied some jars to the Plugin folder of WebSphere® Application Server. If other processes (for example, Deployment Manager or another profile's server) occupy these JAR files, you see errors such as The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. The failure does not affect other applications in WebSphere® Application Server. However, to avoid further conflicts, it is best that you manually remove these JAR files, after you stop all WebSphere® Application Servers. HCL Docs related JAR files are named as follows:
      • com.ibm.json4j_xxx
      • com.ibm.langware.xxx
      • com.ibm.rcp.spellcheck.xxx
      • com.ibm.rcp.textanalyzerxxx
      • org.eclipse.equinox.common_3.4.0.xxx
      • com.ibm.lconn.spellchecker.httpxxx
      • httpqueue.channel.jar

Results

When you finish uninstalling, check the docs_uninstall.log file for errors, and repeat this task if necessary. The log file is in the docs_install_root(for example,/opt/IBM/IBMDocs)/logs directory.