coder/docs/install/uninstall.md

# Uninstall

This article walks you through how to uninstall your Coder server.

To uninstall your Coder server, delete the following directories.

## Cached Coder releases

```shell
rm -rf ~/.cache/coder
```

## The Coder server binary and CLI

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## Linux

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## Debian, Ubuntu

```shell
sudo apt remove coder
```

## Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, SUSE

```shell
sudo yum remove coder
```

## Alpine

```shell
sudo apk del coder
```

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If you installed Coder manually or used the install script on an unsupported
operating system, you can remove the binary directly:

```shell
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/coder
```

## macOS

```shell
brew uninstall coder
```

If you installed Coder manually, you can remove the binary directly:

```shell
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/coder
```

## Windows

```powershell
winget uninstall Coder.Coder
```

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## Coder as a system service configuration

```shell
sudo rm /etc/coder.d/coder.env
```

## Coder settings and the optional built-in PostgreSQL database

> There is a `postgres` directory within the `coderv2` directory that has the
> database engine and database. If you want to reuse the database, consider not
> performing the following step or copying the directory to another location.

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## macOS

```shell
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/coderv2
```

## Linux

```shell
rm -rf ~/.config/coderv2
```

## Windows

```powershell
rmdir %AppData%\coderv2
```

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