2.5 Uninstalling Abaqus documentation, licensing, or products

This section describes the procedures used to remove Abaqus HTML documentation, licensing, or product releases from your computer.

2.5.1 UNIX and Linux platforms

The following procedures explain how to remove Abaqus HTML documentation, licensing, or product releases from UNIX and Linux platforms.

To remove Abaqus HTML documentation:

The Abaqus HTML documentation can be removed safely by using one of the following procedures to stop the web server and delete all of the installed documentation releases or a release-specific directory and all subordinate files. You must have administrator privileges to uninstall Abaqus components.

To remove all installed releases of the Abaqus HTML documentation:
1. Set your current directory to the parent directory for the Abaqus HTML documentation (simulia_dir).
2. If the release that you are removing uses the monitor process to serve the documentation (i.e., the Abaqus web server) or uses the monitor process to perform searches (i.e., an existing non-Abaqus web server), stop the monitor process using the command
```
Documentation/bin/monitor -k
```
3. Remove the documentation directory by typing the command
```
rm -rf Documentation
```
4. Remove the web server restart command from the computer's system startup file. Contact your system administrator or platform vendor for information on the system startup file for your computer.
5. Additional steps may be necessary if you are using an existing non-Abaqus web server. For more information, consult the SIMULIA Answers database in the SIMULIA Online Support System. The SIMULIA Online Support System is accessible from the My Support page at www.simulia.com.
To remove a specific release of the Abaqus HTML documentation:
1. Set your current directory to the simulia_dir/Documentation directory.
2. If the release that you are removing uses the monitor process to serve the documentation (i.e., the Abaqus web server) or uses the monitor process to perform searches (i.e., an existing non-Abaqus web server), stop the monitor process using the command
```
bin/monitor -k
```
3. Type the following commands
```
rm -rf installation_info/release
rm -rf texis/release
rm -rf docs/release
```
  where release refers to the release of the Abaqus documentation you wish to delete.
After you remove a release of the documentation, you can configure the web server to serve the remaining HTML collection using the following procedure:
1. Set your current directory to the simulia_dir/Documentation directory.
2. Verify that the release number of the release that you wish to serve is referenced in the texis.cnf file as follows:
```
Default Database = %INSTALLDIR%/texis/release
```
  where release refers to the documentation release you wish to serve.
3. Run the command
```
installation_info/release/initializeExecutable
```
4. To start the web server to serve the remaining documentation collection, run the command
```
installation_info/release/startServer
```

To remove Abaqus licensing:

This procedure must be performed on the license server host, and you must be logged in as root or the owner of the license server.

Before you can remove the license server and license files, you must terminate the license server using the FLEXnet Licensing tool lmdown (see “lmdown,” Section 3.6.2).
Create a backup of any files you wish to keep, such as your Abaqus license file (typically named abaquslm.lic) and the FLEXnet Licensing server debug log file (typically named abaquslm.log).
Remove the files using the following procedure:
```
cd simulia_dir
rm -rf License
```
Remove the license server restart command from the computer's system startup file. Contact your system administrator or platform vendor for information on the system startup file for your computer.

To remove the Abaqus products:

You can remove a release of Abaqus by deleting the release-specific directory and all subordinate files. Your user account must have permission to delete the Abaqus release-specific directory.

Type the command
```
cd abaqus_dir
```
where abaqus_dir is the Abaqus parent directory.
Change the permissions of the directories and files by entering the command
```
chmod -R 755 6.9-n
```
where n refers to the update you wish to delete.
Remove the release or maintenance delivery by typing the command
```
rm -rf 6.9-n
```
where n refers to the update you wish to delete.

2.5.2 Windows platforms

You can use the uninstall shortcuts provided or the Add or Remove Programs tool to remove Abaqus HTML documentation, licensing, or products. You must have Administrator privileges to uninstall Abaqus components.

To remove Abaqus HTML documentation:

The Abaqus HTML documentation should be removed by using the uninstall function from the Abaqus release Documentation menu.

From the Start menu, select ProgramsAbaqus release DocumentationUninstall Documentation, where release refers to the release of the Abaqus documentation you wish to delete.

Other releases of the Abaqus HTML documentation are not affected by this procedure.

To remove Abaqus licensing:

Abaqus licensing should be removed by using the uninstall function from the Abaqus Licensing menu.

From the Start menu, select ProgramsAbaqus LicensingUninstall Abaqus Licensing.

You should create a backup of any files you wish to keep, such as your Abaqus license file (typically named abaquslm.lic) and the FLEXnet Licensing server debug log file (typically named abaquslm.log). The uninstall program removes only directories and files that were written by the Abaqus licensing installation procedure. Any remaining directories and files can be removed manually.

To remove the Abaqus products:

Performing the uninstall should remove the Abaqus shortcuts from all user profiles.

From the Start menu, select ProgramsAbaqus releaseUninstall Abaqus release, where release refers to the Abaqus release.

The uninstall program removes only directories and files that were written by the Abaqus product installation procedure. Any remaining directories and files can be removed manually following the uninstall procedure. The client uninstall program (see “Client installation for Windows,” Section 2.4.3) removes shortcuts and files installed on the client computer; the Abaqus products on the mounted network drive are not affected.