Uninstall Chef Workstation and its tools

The page documents how to uninstall Chef Workstation and its component tools.

Uninstall Chef Workstation

To uninstall Chef Workstation, use the hab pkg uninstall command:

sudo hab pkg uninstall chef/chef-workstation

Uninstall Chef Workstation component packages

To uninstall a Workstation tool, use the hab pkg uninstall command:

sudo hab pkg uninstall <PACKAGE_IDENT>

Replace <PACKAGE_IDENT> with one of the following packages:

• chef/berkshelf
• chef/chef-cli
• chef/chef-infra-client
• chef/chef-test-kitchen-enterprise
• chef/chef-vault
• chef/cookstyle
• chef/fauxhai
• chef/knife
• chef/ohai

Uninstall a specific package version

You can uninstall a specific package version. For example:

sudo hab pkg uninstall <PACKAGE_IDENT>

Replace <PACKAGE_IDENT> with one of the following:

• the package and version, for example chef/<PACKAGE>/<VERSION>.
• the package version and build, for example chef/<PACKAGE>/<VERSION>/<BUILD_TIMESTAMP>