如何从 mac 完全卸载 symfony 和 composer

Question

I want to completely remove symfony and composer from my mac. I have been googling for five hours and no documentation can be found on how to uninstall composer and symfony completely from my mac. Why is that so hard to find? even on the Symfony website.

Answer 1

Symfony on your computer is just a folder containing the framework and the structure of the files, so you can delete that folder and you are done. Composer is just an binary file (phar) that can run on the command line. Locate where that file is and delete it.

Answer 2

Symfony could be anywhere on your mac.

The 'installer' for mac that comes from here https://symfony.com/download (dd 2019/10) dumps symfony in your home directory in ~/.symfony . I dislike that, too.

ls -al ~/.symfony

if it's there,

rm -rf ~/.symfony

That 'installer' suggests you may want to move it here

ls -al /usr/local/bin/symfony

if it's there

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/symfony

Answer 3

I agree with the above answer to

rm -rf ~/.symfony

but you do not need to run ls to check beforehand, if it's there, it is going to be deleted. If not, it is being ignored.

Better do

whereis symfony 

to check where your binary is and delete it.

Last but not least check if you have installed it via apt, this is a valid solution:

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d  && ls | grep symfony-cli
sudo rm symfony-cli.list && sudo apt update

This will avoid checking for updates on every apt update