Artifactory Uninstallation

Uninstall Artifactory by matching the original installation method: Docker Compose, RPM, Debian, or Linux Archive.

This topic provides instructions for uninstalling Artifactory based on its original installation method.

⚠️
Warning
Uninstalling Artifactory permanently removes the Artifactory user account. If you plan to reinstall Artifactory, a new user account is created with a different User ID (UID), and previous user configurations are lost.

Docker Compose

Follow these steps to uninstall Artifactory when installed using Docker Compose:

Navigate to the installation directory.
```
cd jfrog-artifactory-<version>-compose
```
Stop the Artifactory containers.
```
docker-compose -p rt down
```
Stop the PostgreSQL container (if applicable).
```
docker-compose -p rt-postgres down
```
Remove Docker container traces. To remove Docker container traces, use the following commands.
- For product containers:
```
docker rm artifactory
```
- For a PostgreSQL container:
```
docker rm postgres
```
- For a Nginx container:
```
docker rm nginx
```

📘
Note
The steps above will remove only the containers. You will also need to manually remove the Docker mount directory from the host machine (default ~/.jfrog/artifactory/var) if needed. Make sure you do not remove <MOUNT_PATH>/artifactory/var/data/postgres if you need the third-party data persisted.

Linux Packages (RPM)

Follow these steps to uninstall Artifactory when installed using RPM:

📘
Note
The steps below remove only the application directory. Manually remove the data directory and application configurations (/var/opt/jfrog/artifactory) if required.

Stop Artifactory.
```
systemctl stop artifactory.service
```
Run the RPM uninstall. You must run as a root user.
```
sudo yum erase jfrog-artifactory-pro
```

Linux Packages (Debian)

Follow these steps to uninstall Artifactory when installed using Debian packages:

📘
Note
The steps below remove only the application directory. Manually remove the data directory and application configurations (/var/opt/jfrog/artifactory) if required.

Stop Artifactory.
```
systemctl stop artifactory.service
```
Run the Debian uninstall. You must run as a root user.
```
sudo apt remove jfrog-artifactory-pro
```

Linux Archive

Follow these steps to uninstall Artifactory when installed from a Linux archive:

Go to the directory where you extracted the installer and delete that directory.

Updated 24 days ago