# Uninstalling julia completely
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493 "2020-04-30T16:46:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@benoitseron](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/benoitseron)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/1 "2020-04-30T16:46:13Z")
I am trying to uninstall and then reinstall julia entirely as I had issues similar to [this one](https://github.com/JunoLab/Juno.jl/issues/361) using Atom/Juno.
I followed the steps I could find online, as described in the second section [here](https://www.devmanuals.net/install/ubuntu/ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Xenial-Xerus/how-to-install-julia.html). I also tried to find related files and deleted the manually.
However, while I do the steps again it tells me that ‘no package julia is installed’, when I type ‘julia’ in a terminal, it still starts the REPL. I noticed that it starts an old version of julia, 1.0.4. (Though it cannot find some basic packages that were previously installed, such as Plots).
How can I make sure that everything is uninstalled so that I can try to freshly reinstall julia and hopefully not have the same problems?
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/2 "2020-04-30T16:48:43Z")
What is your platform? On Windows I can locate the various versions under `AppData`, and remove them manually if need be.
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### Author:  [@Iulian.Cioarca](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Iulian.Cioarca)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/3 "2020-04-30T16:56:06Z")
You can go to Juno settings and see the julia.exe path (on Windows). Then uninstall from there. Please keep in mind that all packages are usually under `C:/Users/username/.julia`. So if you really want a clean setup, you need to delete that `.julia` folder.
EDIT: now I saw you said `terminal`. You can type `where julia` if you are on Windows to get the path to the executable.
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### Author:  [@Albert\_Zevelev](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Albert_Zevelev)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/4 "2020-04-30T17:01:09Z")
In terminal
‘rm -rf ~/.julia’
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/5 "2020-04-30T17:03:47Z")
I think the OP was complaining about extraneous executables of Julia.
On Windows these are typically in `C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia\Julia-1.4.0`, or `C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia 1.5.0-DEV`
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### Author:  [@benoitseron](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/benoitseron)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/6 "2020-04-30T18:00:17Z")
Hey guys, I’m on Ubuntu 18. I run this command as suggested `rm -rf ~/.julia` but still I have the same problem. (I already ran that before). 
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### Author:  [@Oto\_Brzobohaty](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oto_Brzobohaty)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/7 "2020-04-30T18:08:33Z")
Hi,
in `~./Julia/` directory are config files and installed packages.
Julia installation is in different directory. Look into you PATH in .bashrc.
For example, I have Julia installed (unpacked) directly in the home directory ~/julia-1.3.1
Use command:
`which julia`
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/8 "2020-04-30T18:09:20Z")
Try `which julia` in the terminal.
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### Author:  [@benoitseron](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/benoitseron)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/9 "2020-04-30T18:12:56Z")
Indeed, this worked. It was in /snap/bin/julia. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Rkiefe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Rkiefe)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uninstalling-julia-completely/38493/10 "2025-10-02T13:58:39Z")
The official way is to run on the terminal:
`juliaup self uninstall`
It says so on the terminal at the end of your installation.