How to delete program installed with .bundle?

Recently i install vmware 4.1 (which is bundle file). Now i want to remove it. How to do that?


VMware comes with a shell script named as .bundle. With this script all applications bundled with VMware will be installed. Unless a package manager is called from this script (which isn't) it will be done without the help of a package manager. Therefore our package managers can not help uninstalling the software.

However the installer that comes with VMware (vmware-installer) should have an option to uninstall components:

vmware-installer -h

To display all options you have with this program. Whether this will work, and if really all packages can be removed by this I don't know.

An example of how to remove the vmware-player is given at the Ubuntu Community Wiki:

sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player

Also given there is a long list of things to do for a manual uninstall in case this fails.


If you want to remove VMware completely, you can try this (First make sure the .bundle file is executable.)

./VMware.bundle -u"vmware-workstation"

For making a file executable :

 chmod +x /path/to/the/file

And, even without that - and from any directory (in modern times) you can run:

 sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation

And that will uninstall it.