How to correctly uninstall and reinstall the stm32cubeide?

[rileyrg]

Hi,

(1) Is it ok to install the IDE as my user and not via sudo? It seemed to be ok until I had some later issues which I wont go into here just yet as almost certainly "user error".

(2) I installed the ide (as user), and because it was saying it couldn't download firmware, I decided to remove it (rm) and reinstall. It says "nothing to install" despite the --target directory AND the previous workspace being non-existent.

So from (2) how is it determining there is "nothing to install" when I have nothing installed?

I'm very new to this IDE so please be patient 😉

[Julien D · Accepted solution]

Hi @rileyrg​,

Steps are described in this topic: https://community.st.com/s/question/0D53W00000IreG7SAJ/how-do-i-properly-uninstall-a-previous-cubeide-version-in-linux

Hope this helps.

[rileyrg]

Oh, was an early start. Cant believe I didnt find that. Thanks.

I added a couple of facility scripts that some may find helpful. I use sway/wayland so needed to do the x11/reparenting thing.

https://github.com/rileyrg/linux-init/blob/master/directories/bin/stm32cubeide-uninstall

https://github.com/rileyrg/linux-init/blob/master/directories/bin/stm32cubeide