Uninstall Oh My Zsh

I installed Oh My Zsh by using the following command so how do I uninstall it?

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL )"

4 Answers

From the oh-my-zsh README:

Uninstalling Oh My Zsh

Oh My Zsh isn't for everyone. We'll miss you, but we want to make this an easy breakup.

If you want to uninstall oh-my-zsh, just run uninstall_oh_my_zsh from the command-line. It will remove itself and revert your previous bash or zsh configuration.

I had to change the permissions of my uninstall.sh file for this to work. My uninstall.sh was read-only. Changing it to 777 did the trick!

$ sudo chmod 777 ~/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh
$ ~/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh

If uninstall_oh_my_zsh doesn't works, you can run the .sh file directly:

source ~/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh

You can run the following command:

sh ~/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh

You will be asked the following:

Are you sure you want to remove Oh My Zsh? [y/N] 

Then enter y for "yes" and press Enter. This will restore .zshrc and remove the ~/.oh-my-zsh/ folder.