Uninstalling the Slack CLI

All good things come to an end! If you need to uninstall the Slack CLI, run the commands below. Note that these instructions will uninstall the Slack CLI, but not its dependencies. Follow these instructions to uninstall Deno.

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MacOS & Linux uninstallation

Run the following commands in your terminal window

$ rm -rf ~/.slack  # Delete the download binary
$ rm /usr/local/bin/slack  # Delete the command alias (replacing `slack` with a command name)

Windows uninstallation

The command binary is stored in $HOME\AppData\Local\slack-cli or $HOME\.slack-cli. This binary can be removed with the following command:

rd -r $HOME\AppData\Local\slack-cli

where $HOME is substituted for the full path, e.g. C:\Users\<your_username>.

warning

As with installation, PowerShell is required for uninstallation of the Slack CLI from Windows machines. An alternative shell will not work.

Removing the command from the $env:path can be done with the following command:

$env:Path = ($env:Path -split ';' -ne  "$HOME\AppData\Local\slack-cli\bin") -join ';'

Removing the command from the system path can be done with the following command:

[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', (([System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path', [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User) -split ';' -ne '$HOME\AppData\Local\slack-cli\bin') -join ';'), [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)

Finally, general configurations can be removed with the following command:

rd -r $HOME\.slack

To check that uninstallation was successful, run the following commands and verify that you receive an error — in this case, that's a good thing!

slack version
echo $env:path

Until next time!