uninstall oh my zsh

[vmaryanne82]

I personally hate this tool. I tried everything possible under the google search to uninstall this. Nothing works.

I keep getting this command - zsh: command not found: for everything. Even to open vi or touch ./zschrc to update plugins.

I have run uninstall_oh_my_zsh it says uninstall_oh_my_zsh:1: command not found: env

I have tried source ~/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh. It auto breaks at Line 13 It doesnt even give me the option to type Yes or No and auto cancels uninstallation process.

This is affecting all my other terminal in my M1 Mac and my work. I cant run any command on my terminal. Can you please help me uninstall this off my system.

[carlosala]

Removing the line source oh-my-zsh.shfrom your zshrc should do the trick. You can also remove ~/.oh-my-zsh directory.

[RVasquez20]

You can remove ~/.oh-my-zsh directory.

[rwmitchell]

Wouldn't it be more important to restore the original .zshrc file that OMZ made a backup copy of before replacing? And wouldn't it be that file which likely has the missing PATH settings which is now causing all the issues?

[RukshanJS]

When i echo ed the env vars that i were using before installing this tool, now it returns nothing. I would naturally expect this tool to just enhance the user experience, by adding some value to it, and not replace the current configs. I maybe wrong here but when installing the tool does it really "backup and forget"s the older env vars of the user? If that's the case, I might have to uninstall the tool sorry. Can someone please explain this? I'm fairly certain i'm doing something wrong here because that cannot be the default behavior right?

[prrtk]

Yes, You can remove ~/.oh-my-zsh directory.

[prrtk]

that'll fix the problem ig.

[ferdnyc]

I just submitted a PR (#11709) which may also have helped with this: It uses the full /usr/bin/env path in uninstall_oh_my_zsh(), rather than a bare env, so that it should still run even if the $PATH is broken (as seemed to be the case here).

[ferdnyc]

Hrm. Actually that won't help, since it still won't find sh.

Surprisingly, though, having /usr/bin/env unset the path (/usr/bin/env -u PATH ZSH="$ZSH") seems to reset it to the default (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin, in my case on Fedora 38). That then allows a bare sh "$ZSH/tools/uninstall.sh" to run. I wonder if I should add a -u PATH to the PR, as well?

[mdashikulislam]

You can run the following command:
sh ~/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh

You will be asked the following:
Are you sure you want to remove Oh My Zsh? [y/N]
Then enter y for "yes" and press Enter. This will restore .zshrc and remove the ~/.oh-my-zsh/ folder.