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How do you uninstall or remove WALinuxAgent from custom installation

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I used sudo python setup.py install --register-service to install WALinuxAgent. how would I remove or uninstall it?

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Created 5 years ago
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vrdmrcommented, Feb 21, 2019

The following steps remove the agent from the box.

systemctl stop walinuxagent # Or service walinuxagent stop
waagent -deprovision -force
rm -rf /var/lib/waagent

I’ve added them to the FAQs. Let me know if you face any issues.

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vrdmrcommented, Oct 19, 2019

The VM without agents section is now moved from FAQ to VMs-without-WALinuxAgent.

systemctl stop walinuxagent # Or service walinuxagent stop should stop the WALinuxAgent service and waagent -deprovision -force should remove the daemon’s (The version which comes installed in the box) operation.

And once it is stopped, it is safe to do rm -rf /var/lib/waagent as all the dependencies downloaded in /var/lib/waagent are not needed anymore.

@oviliz Could you please paste the output of service walinuxagent status?

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