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Uninstalling Geneious Prime

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Note that none of the following procedures will delete your Geneious data folder.  Your Geneious data folder, unless otherwise specified, will be located in your Home directory.  By default, a Geneious data folder will be named something like Geneious X.Y data, where X.Y is your current version of Geneious.

Also, note that uninstalling Geneious will not automatically release your license activation.  If possible, you should always release your license activation prior to uninstalling Geneious. See the following Help Center article for instructions on how to release a license activation: How-do-I-release-a-license-from-Geneious.

Uninstalling Geneious Prime from Windows

Windows users have two options for uninstalling Geneious Prime:

  1. Use the native Add/Remove Programs interface in Windows
  2. Run “uninstall.exe”, which accompanies the Geneious Prime application in its installation directory. Note: some early versions of Geneious Prime did not include “uninstall.exe” and need to be removed through Add/Remove Programs. 

Installation directories on Windows:

  • On Windows 64-bit systems Geneious Prime will be found in C:\Program Files\Geneious Prime
  • On Windows 64-bit systems, 32-bit Geneious will be found in C:\Program Files (X86)
  • On Windows 32-bit systems, 32-bit Geneious will be found in C:\Program Files

Uninstalling Geneious Prime from a Mac

Mac users can uninstall Geneious Prime by moving the Geneious Prime application to the Trash. To completely uninstall, the user should first confirm they are not using other software that makes use of FLEXnet for licensing, then move the following three folders to Trash:

  1. /Library/Application_Support/Geneious 
  2. /Library/Preferences/Flexnet Publisher
  3. /Library/Application_Support/Flexnet Publisher

Uninstalling Geneious Prime from Linux

Linux users can uninstall Geneious Prime by running the “uninstall” shell script in the Geneious Prime installation directory. The location depends on whether Geneious Prime was installed by an admin or standard user. To run the admin version of “uninstall”, you will need to use sudo permissions.

Installation directories on Linux:

  • If installed by an admin: /opt/Geneious_Prime
  • If installed by a standard user: /home/[your_user_name]/Geneious_Prime

 

 

 

 

 

 

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