Uninstall Chocolatey package

Question

The Chocolatey package manager supports silent installations via the command below. It doesn't seem to have an uninstall command.

cinst install packagename

Is there a way to uninstall an application via Chocolatey?

Answer 1

As I answered here, you can use

cuninst packagename

to uninstall a package.

Details can be found at Uninstall Command.

Edit: For new versions, should use choco uninstall packagename.

Answer 2

Update: Chocolatey now has primitive support for uninstall through 'cuninst packagename'. With that though the package authors need to provide a chocolateyUninstall.ps1 file that would undo all of the things that the install did. It's limited because

• There are no functions defined in the Chocolatey PowerShell module that would help with uninstall
• There is no automatic removal of MSIs
• Uninstall only removes the most current version of a package in the machine repository (instead of giving you options to remove a certain one or all of them)