How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS?
How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS? My version of rbenv is messed up, and brew uninstall rbenv
isn't working because brew relies on ruby.
I took these steps to successfully get rid of rbenv on my mac running El Capitan (10.11.4). Rbenv is a major cause of Failed to build gem native extension errors
from my experience.
- Remove using brew:
brew remove rbenv
- Delete
.rbenv
directory:rm -rf ~/.rbenv
- Open
.bash_profile
file and delete any lines with rbenv in them:vi ~/.bash_profile
- Open
.bashrc
file and delete any lines with rbenv in them:vi ~/.bashrc
Finally, reload .bash_profile
and .bashrc
:
. ~/.bash_profile && . ~/.bashrc
I think you should be able to uninstall rbenv by simply removing ~/.rbenv
.
rm -rf ~/.rbenv
Or, if you installed rbenv via Homebrew, you can do
rm -rf `brew --prefix`/Cellar/rbenv
Remember to uninstall all ruby versions installed by rbenv
before uninstalling rbenv
itself.
rbenv versions
rbenv uninstall x.y.z # uninstall all versions from the last step
brew uninstall rbenv