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<p>Hi, TeX Live maintainers. I am Cyrus Yip. I tried to migrate from
TeX Live to TinyTeX, but there is no uninstallation guide for
Linux users on the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html">documentation</a>.
I hope there will be uninstallation guide for users. Here is an
incomplete list of methods of uninstallation that I wrote. You can
add it to the documentation if it is helpful.<br>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">If TeX Live is installed from package manager, </span><span class="md-meta-i-c md-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95483/how-to-remove-everything-related-to-tex-live-for-fresh-install-on-ubuntu" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(65, 131, 196); -webkit-user-drag: none;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">uninstall it via package manager</span></a></span><span class="md-plain md-expand" style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">If TeX Live is installed from its installer:</span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Undo </span><span class="md-meta-i-c md-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-290003.4" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(65, 131, 196); -webkit-user-drag: none;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">post-install actions</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remove TeX Live</span></p>
<pre class="md-fences md-end-block ty-contain-cm modeLoaded" spellcheck="false" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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text-align: left; white-space: normal; background-image:
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inherit; background-repeat: inherit;
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inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color:
rgb(248, 248, 248); position: relative !important; border:
1px solid rgb(231, 234, 237); border-radius: 3px; padding:
8px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; width:
inherit;" lang="bash"><span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 0.1px;"><span class="cm-comment" style="box-sizing: border-box;
color: rgb(170, 85, 0);"># check where TeX Live was
installed</span></span><br>
<span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;
padding-right: 0.1px;">kpsewhich <span class="cm-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box;
color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">-var-value</span><span class="cm-operator" style="box-sizing: border-box;
color: rgb(152, 26, 26);">=</span>TEXMFROOT</span><br>
<span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;
padding-right: 0.1px;"><span class="cm-comment" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(170, 85,
0);"># remove symlinks</span></span><br>
<span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;
padding-right: 0.1px;"><span class="cm-builtin" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 0,
170);">sudo</span> tlmgr path remove</span><br>
<span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;
padding-right: 0.1px;"><span class="cm-comment" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(170, 85,
0);"># or use this, change the path of tlmgr
accordingly</span></span><br>
<span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;
padding-right: 0.1px;"><span class="cm-builtin" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 0,
170);">sudo</span>
/usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr path
remove</span><br>
<span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;
padding-right: 0.1px;"><span class="cm-comment" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(170, 85,
0);"># remove TeX Live</span></span><br>
<span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;
padding-right: 0.1px;"><span class="cm-builtin" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 0,
170);">sudo</span> <span class="cm-builtin" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 0,
170);">rm</span> <span class="cm-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">-rI</span>
/usr/local/texlive</span><br>
<span role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;
padding-right: 0.1px;"><span class="cm-builtin" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 0,
170);">sudo</span> <span class="cm-builtin" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 0,
170);">rm</span> <span class="cm-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">-rI</span>
/usr/share/texmf</span></pre>
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