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Uninstalling pnpm

Removing the globally installed packages​

Before removing the pnpm CLI, it might make sense to remove all global packages that were installed by pnpm.

To list all the global packages, run pnpm ls -g. There are two ways to remove the global packages:

  1. Run pnpm rm -g <pkg>... with each global package listed.
  2. Run pnpm root -g to find the location of the global directory and remove it manually.

Removing the pnpm CLI​

If you used the standalone script to install pnpm, then you should be able to uninstall the pnpm CLI by removing the pnpm home directory:

rm -rf $PNPM_HOME

You might also want to clean the PNPM_HOME env variable in your shell configuration file ($HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.zshrc or $HOME/.config/fish/config.fish).

If you used npm to install pnpm, then you should use npm to uninstall pnpm:

npm rm -g pnpm

Removing the global content-addressable store​

rm -rf $(pnpm store path)

If you used pnpm in non-primary disks, then you must run the above command in every disk, where pnpm was used. pnpm creates one store per disk.