Uninstall, Remove or Delete Drush from multiple locations

**agentofcode** · June 18th, 2013

Prior to discovering the recommended method of installing Drush I attempted to install it the standard Ubuntu way via the Software Center and sudo apt-get install drush. Now I have two non functional Drush installs in two diff. locations. I would like to remove both of them so I can follow the recommended directions and get Drush installed correctly.

One location of the install is /usr/share/php/drush the other is /drupal/drush

I've tried sudo apt-get remove drush and sudo apt-get autoremove drush which are commands I found on other threads. I also tried removing it from the Software Center. But I still have two installations of drush. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

**ajgreeny** · June 18th, 2013

The link you give says that the way to install is:-

Drush can easily be installed on Ubuntu by using Aptitude or apt-get. If you have sudo rights the quickest way to install Drush is from the Ubuntu repository:

$ sudo apt-get install drush

which is basically the same as using the software centre, so I do not understand what your problem is exactly, though you say you now have two installations of drush. Have you carried out the self-update and rebooted as the link suggests?

**agentofcode** · June 18th, 2013

I did try that previously. Couldn't get it to work. Decided to try it again since you brought it up and I got the update to work and now the version reports back as being updated. However I still have an install at /drupal/drush. How can I get rid of this second install? I'm not sure what method of install placed it there. But I do not recall ever selecting where I wanted it installed.