The official instructions for removing the CrashPlan Linux app are this:
Linux: Run the uninstaller shell script that comes in the installer package.
Unfortunately the uninstaller doesn’t do a very good job, and leaves a lot laying around. So here’s instructions on how to get rid of everything:
Stop the CrashPlan daemon task
sudo /etc/init.d/crashplan stop
Delete the files
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/crashplan sudo rm -rf /var/lib/crashplan sudo rm -rf /usr/local/var/crashplan sudo rm -rf /etc/init.d/crashplan /etc/rc2.d/S99crashplan
(yes, these could be combined into a simple statement, but I broke them up for ease of reading.)
That should take care of it.
Note that these instructions are based on a Ubuntu installation. And as always, exercise a little common sense with any command that begins in sudo rm -rf If you break it, you get to keep all the pieces.
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#1 by Brian on September 14, 2010 - 8:57 pm
Thank you. Very helpful
#2 by Peter on October 11, 2010 - 11:14 am
Very very thank you. Very helpful
#3 by chris faron on March 15, 2011 - 3:08 pm
Thanks Mike, great help. Looking forward to the new version of Ubuntu
#4 by Allan on November 10, 2011 - 12:01 pm
Nice work. Thanks for making it so clear!
#5 by Steve on December 20, 2011 - 10:56 am
Great! Made that simple enough! Thanks!
#6 by nick on February 9, 2013 - 8:36 pm
Thanks — I wish the crashplan website had instructions this clear.
#7 by Pablo on June 3, 2013 - 8:31 pm
Thanks for the guide! Just as an FYI, however, I also had an additional path not listed above (on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS): /usr/local/bin/CrashPlanDesktop
#8 by The Lone Marmot (@TheLoneMarmot) on February 16, 2014 - 7:12 am
Thank you so much.
The inability to completely uninstall CrashPlan was really annoying me!