uninstalling OmniWeb

[Andrew Abernathy]

On Thursday, September 28, 2000, at 08:58 PM, Don Foy wrote:

> The first time I downloaded OmniWeb 4.0 = 
> (beta 5) It opened the installer and put OmniWeb in the Applications = 
> folder. Now I find I can't delete the old version or replace it with the = 
> new version (beta 6) which came as a self-mounting image and is now a = 
> drive on my desktop.

Ah, yes - the Installer problem. The issue is that when you installed with Installer, you had to authenticate (due to a problem with Installer). When you authenticated, Installer installed OmniWeb with administrator ownership and permissions such that no-one else can remove it. But Installer doesn't currently support _uninstalling_. (If it did, it would let you authenticate in order to be able to uninstall.)

The solution is the following: log in with a user name of "root". The password will be whatever password you gave during the Mac OS X installation - it's probably the same as your normal password. Then you can drag OmniWeb into the trash. (While you're at it, drag the OmniWeb installation receipt into the trash as well - it's in the /Library/Receipts folder.) Then empty the trash. (It's important to empty the trash while you're still logged in as root - emptying the trash for _your_ account does not empty the trash for other accounts. [At least, it shouldn't and hasn't in the past, and I would be disappointed if it did so now.])

-andrew