Remove Bitmessage?

StuPiD123 · February 25, 2018, 11:50pm

Hey guys,

how can i remove Bitmessage from my Qubes-Whonix “anon-whonix” APP VM?

Best regards

0brand · February 26, 2018, 3:04am

Hi StuPiD123

Its always a good idea to make a backup before you make any changes to your system.

If you look in Email User Data Back-UP the BitMessage profile and all user-generated program data is in this file /home/user/PyBitmessage. Do you want to delete everything? All the configuration file? You will not be able to use Bitmessage again in this AppVM without installing Bitmessage agian.

BubonicChronicWhonix · February 26, 2018, 3:51am

rm -rf "$HOME/PyBitmessage"

Edit by Patrick: added quotes

StuPiD123 · February 26, 2018, 1:18pm

Hey,

yes i want to remove Bitmessage completely. But the command “rm -rf $HOME/PyBittmessage” doesn´t work in the Whonix-ws konsole.

Any Ideas?

0brand · February 27, 2018, 12:20am

Hi StuPiD123

There is only 1 “t” in PyBitmessage not 2. Try:

sudo rm -rf "$HOME/PyBitmessage"

edit by Patrick: added quotes

StuPiD123 · February 27, 2018, 11:15am

Same result with 1 “t” -> Nothing happens in Console

Any Ideas?

Edit: I can´t find the folder anymore so i guess it worked

Patrick · February 27, 2018, 8:31pm

What do you expect to happen?

Did you use rm before? rm won’t show any output if it deletes a file or folder. Will only complain if file/folder does not exist.

I made edits and added quotes. Because when one adds a space after $HOME, it may as well nuke the whole home folder.