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Uninstalling the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit

Note

Uninstallation procedures remove all Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit component files but don’t affect user files in the installation directory.

Uninstalling OpenVINO 2022.1

Uninstalling Using the Original Installation Package

Use initial bootstrapper file w_openvino_toolkit_p_<version>.exe to select product for uninstallation. Follow the wizard instructions. Select Remove option when presented. If you have more product versions installed, you can select one from a drop-down menu in GUI.

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If you want to use graphical user interface (GUI) installation wizard, run the script without any parameters:

./l_openvino_toolkit_p_<version>.sh

Follow the wizard instructions.

Otherwise, you can add parameters -a for additional arguments and –cli to run installation in command line (CLI):

./l_openvino_toolkit_p_<version>.sh -a --cli

Follow the wizard. Select Remove option when presented. If you have more product versions installed, you can select one from a drop-down menu in GUI and from a list in CLI.

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Use initial bootstrapper file m_openvino_toolkit_p_<version>.dmg to select product for uninstallation. Mount the file and double-click bootstrapper.app. Follow the wizard instructions. Select Remove option when presented. If you have more product versions installed, you can select one from a drop-down menu in GUI.

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Uninstalling Using the Intel® Software Installer

  1. Choose the Apps & Features option from the Windows Settings app.

  2. From the list of installed applications, select the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit and click Uninstall.

  3. Follow the uninstallation wizard instructions.

Alternatively, follow the steps:

  1. Go to installation directory.

  2. In OpenVINO directory find Installer folder and open it.

  3. Double-click on installer.exe and you will be presented with dialog box shown below.

  1. Run the installer file from the user mode installation directory:

/home/<user>/intel/openvino_installer/installer

or in a case of administrative installation:

/opt/intel/openvino_installer/installer

  1. Follow the uninstallation wizard instructions.

  1. Open the installer file from the installation directory:

open /opt/intel/openvino_installer/installer.app

  1. Follow the uninstallation wizard instructions.

Finally, complete the procedure with clicking on Modify and then selecting Uninstall option:

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if GUI is not available, installer also could be run in a CLI mode:

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Uninstalling OpenVINO 2022.1.1

If you have installed OpenVINO Runtime 2022.1.1 from archive files, you can uninstall it by deleting the archive files and the extracted folders.

If you have created the symbolic link, remove the link first.

Use either of the following methods to delete the files:

  • Use Windows Explorer to remove the files.

  • Open a Command Prompt and run:

    rmdir /s <extracted_folder>
del <path_to_archive>

If you have created the symbolic link, remove the link first:

`rm /home/<USER>/intel/openvino_2022`

To delete the files:

rm -r <extracted_folder> && rm <path_to_archive>
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