Uninstalling a software

After learning the different ways of installing a software, now we will learn how to uninstall a software. At times, you may need to remove some softwares from each client. Instead of dealing with them one by one, you can use Puppet and automate the removal process. For this purpose, it is fine to use the package resource of Puppet.

As an example, we will uninstall the older versions of Java. In the following screenshot, you can see that we have both Java 7 and 8 installed. We can remove version 7:

Uninstalling a software

Here, we will uninstall two packages: Java 7 Update 75 and Java 7 Update 75 (64-bit). We have already created a module for Java ...

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