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# Uninstall

You can uninstall OpenText Application Quality Management from the server machine. When uninstalling OpenText Application Quality Management, projects are not deleted. You can also uninstall OpenText Application Quality Management client components from a client machine that has been used to access OpenText Application Quality Management.

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## Uninstall from Windows systems

This section describes how to uninstall ALM from your Windows server machine.

- Select Start > All Programs > OpenText Application Quality Management. Run Uninstall OpenText Application Quality Management.

  Alternatively, navigate to the installation directory (the default is C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\ALM\ALM). Run the Uninstall_ALM.exe file.

- (Optional) To remove all traces of OpenText Application Quality Management from the machine, delete all remaining files in the installation directory as well as the deployment path. Also delete the \..\ALM folders in the c:\ProgramData directory and their files

Note: When you remove the repository directory, all projects' repositories are also removed. The database remains unless it is specifically deleted.

## Uninstall from Linux systems

This section describes how to uninstall OpenText Application Quality Management from your Linux server machine.

Note: You must log on to the server machine as the same user that installed OpenText Application Quality Management.

1. Navigate to the installation directory (the default is /root/ALM/ALM).

2. Run the Uninstall_ALM file ( ./Uninstall_ALM).

3. (Optional) To remove all traces of OpenText Application Quality Management from the machine, delete all remaining files in the installation directory as well as the deployment path. Also delete the /OpenText/ALM folders in the /var/opt directory and their files.

   Note: When you remove the repository directory, all projects' repositories are also removed. The database remains unless it is specifically deleted.

## Remove client components from a client machine

When you run OpenText Application Quality Management on your client computer, client components are downloaded to your client machine. You can use the ALM Client Cleanup add-in to remove all ALM client components, including files and registry keys. For details and to download the add-in, see the ALM Client Cleanup Add-in page on Marketplace.

If the client machine is used to access OpenText Application Quality Management after the cleanup add-in has been run, all necessary components are downloaded again from the OpenText Application Quality Management server.

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