How Do You Uninstall Rbenv on macOS?
My Version of Rbenv Is Messed Up, and Brew Uninstall Rbenv Isn't Working Because Brew Relies on Ruby. 1 3 Answers I Took These Steps to Successfully Get Rid of...
How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS? My version of rbenv is messed up, and brew uninstall rbenv isn't working because brew relies on ruby.
3 Answers
I took these steps to successfully get rid of rbenv on my mac running El Capitan (10.11.4). Rbenv is a major cause of Failed to build gem native extension errors from my experience.
- Remove using brew:
brew remove rbenv - Delete
.rbenvdirectory:rm -rf ~/.rbenv - Open
.bash_profilefile and delete any lines with rbenv in them:vi ~/.bash_profile - Open
.bashrcfile and delete any lines with rbenv in them:vi ~/.bashrc
Finally, reload .bash_profile and .bashrc:
. ~/.bash_profile && . ~/.bashrc
I think you should be able to uninstall rbenv by simply removing ~/.rbenv.
rm -rf ~/.rbenv
Or, if you installed rbenv via Homebrew, you can do
rm -rf `brew --prefix`/Cellar/rbenv
Remember to uninstall all ruby versions installed by rbenv before uninstalling rbenv itself.
rbenv versions
rbenv uninstall x.y.z # uninstall all versions from the last step
brew uninstall rbenv
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