Uninstallation

This guide will help you completely remove vfox from your system.

1. Remove Shell Hooks

First, you need to remove the vfox activation commands from your shell configuration files.

WARNING

Please select the instructions appropriate for your Shell!

Bash

Open your ~/.bashrc file and remove the following line:

eval "$(vfox activate bash)"

After saving the file, reload your shell configuration:

source ~/.bashrc

ZSH

Open your ~/.zshrc file and remove the following line:

eval "$(vfox activate zsh)"

After saving the file, reload your shell configuration:

source ~/.zshrc

Fish

Open your ~/.config/fish/config.fish file and remove the following line:

vfox activate fish | source

After saving the file, reload your shell configuration:

source ~/.config/fish/config.fish

PowerShell

Open your PowerShell profile. You can find its location by running:

$PROFILE

Common locations:

• C:\Users\<username>\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 (PowerShell 7+)
• C:\Users\<username>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 (Windows PowerShell)

Remove the following line from the profile:

Invoke-Expression "$(vfox activate pwsh)"

After saving the file, reload your PowerShell profile:

. $PROFILE

Clink & Cmder

1. Find the scripts path:

   clink info | findstr scripts

2. Remove the clink_vfox.lua file from the scripts directory
3. Restart Clink or Cmder

Nushell

Open your Nushell config file (location shown by $nu.config-path) and remove the vfox activation line that was appended during installation.

2. Uninstall vfox Binary

Remove the vfox executable from your system.

Windows

Scoop

scoop uninstall vfox

winget

winget uninstall vfox

Setup Installer

1. Open Settings > Apps > Installed apps (or Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall a program)
2. Find vfox in the list
3. Click Uninstall and follow the wizard

Manual Installation

1. Delete the directory where you extracted vfox
2. Remove the vfox installation directory from your PATH environment variable:
   • Open System Properties > Environment Variables
   • Find Path in User variables or System variables
   • Remove the entry pointing to the vfox directory
   • Click OK to save

Unix-like

Homebrew

brew uninstall vfox

APT

sudo apt-get remove vfox

To also remove the repository configuration:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/versionfox.list

YUM

sudo yum remove vfox

To also remove the repository configuration:

sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/versionfox.repo

Manual Installation

Remove the vfox binary:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/vfox

3. Clean Up vfox Data (Optional)

If you want to completely remove all data stored by vfox, including installed SDKs, plugins, and configuration files:

WARNING

This will permanently delete all SDK versions you installed through vfox!

Remove vfox Data Directory

rm -rf ~/.version-fox

This directory contains:

• Installed SDK versions
• Plugin files
• Configuration files
• Global .tool-versions file
• Cache and temporary files

Verify Uninstallation

To verify that vfox has been completely removed:

which vfox
# or
vfox --version

Both commands should return "command not found" or similar error messages.

Troubleshooting

vfox command still works after uninstallation

• Make sure you have closed and reopened all terminal windows after removing the shell hooks
• Check if there are multiple shell configuration files (e.g., .bash_profile, .profile, .bashrc) and ensure the vfox activation line is removed from all of them
• On Windows, restart your computer to ensure all environment variable changes take effect

SDKs installed via vfox still appear in PATH

• Check if you have a .tool-versions file in your current directory or home directory
• Remove the vfox data directory as described in step 3 above
• On Windows, manually check your user environment variables and remove any SDK-related paths that were added by vfox