How do I remove a package installed via Chocolatey?

Question

I installed gittfs using

cinst gittfs

How do I now remove the gittfs package?

I would like to suggest changing the accepted answer to the one by xuhdev — Scott Smith, Jan 29 '13 at 19:23
Possible duplicate of [Chocolatey Uninstall Package](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10402187/chocolatey-uninstall-package) — doubleDown, Oct 23 '15 at 07:11

score 34 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 08 '16 at 23:13

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Use

cuninst packagename

edited Nov 08 '16 at 23:13

ferventcoder

answered Jul 02 '12 at 10:19

xuhdev

score 15 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 21 '19 at 22:13

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UPDATE: as per @ferventcoder's comment, Chocolately has added support for uninstalling packages since this question was first asked and answered.

The syntax is chocolatey uninstall packageName or just cuninst packageName.

You can optionally uninstall a specific version:

cuninst packageName -version 1.0.1234

See Rob's link for the latest, including known limitations: https://chocolatey.org/docs/commands-uninstall

edited Jan 21 '19 at 22:13

Peter Mortensen

answered May 15 '12 at 20:26

Matt

Chocolatey now has native support for uninstall - see https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/CommandsUninstall – ferventcoder Jul 13 '12 at 04:10
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It's the most frustrating thing that Chocolatey allows authors to submit packages with no uninstall procedure defined. – Conrad.Dean Jun 03 '13 at 18:43
Choco does have autouninstaller since March 2015 and it's pretty good at automatically uninstalling applications now without an uninstall script. – ferventcoder Nov 08 '16 at 23:14

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