topic Re: SAS 9.4 Uninstall ERROR in Administration and Deployment

SAS 9.4 Uninstall ERROR

japsas100 — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:54:12 GMT

Hey,

I am trying to uninstall the sas9.4 from linux box. its hanged at zero percent(0%) and when stopped its throwing below error: -

/home/sas/.SASAppData/SASDeploymentWizard/sasdm_2017-03-06-14.44.01.log

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException

Please advise .

Re: SAS 9.4 Uninstall ERROR

JuanS_OCS — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:21:30 GMT

Hello @japsas100,

I would just delete the folders that contain SAS data/config/logs/temp files, with normal OS commands.

Re: SAS 9.4 Uninstall ERROR

japsas100 — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:40:24 GMT

Still getting the same error after deleted all the files from /opt/sas/config/Lev1/Logs/Configure dir

Re: SAS 9.4 Uninstall ERROR

JuanS_OCS — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:46:10 GMT

What I say is that you can rm -rF the sas directories, such as:

/home/*/.SASAppData/

/opt/sas/config/

/opt/sas/sashome/

etc

Re: SAS 9.4 Uninstall ERROR

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:59:00 GMT

The nice thing about UNIX systems is that one does not need an uninstaller per se, as they do not have such a moronic design as the Windows registry (which constitutes the perfect SPOF - single point of failure - that one could ever devise)

Removing the installation directories, some lines from etc/inittab in case of server processes, amd maybe a directory in /var and/or /tmp will remove software without a trace.