Uninstalling the tools

This page removes the tools you installed in Getting started: Claude Code, Codex, Node.js, Make, Docker, Git, Homebrew, and on Windows, WSL.

You don't have to. These are common tools, and other programs on your computer may use them. Skip this page if you are not sure, or if you might build something else soon. Removing one only takes away that tool. None of these steps touch your own files.

IMPORTANT

Uninstall NanoClaw first, on Uninstalling NanoClaw. NanoClaw's uninstaller needs Node.js and Docker to run, so it has to go before them.

The steps go in the opposite order to Getting started: the last tool you installed comes off first, and Homebrew, which installed most of the others, comes off last.

Remove them

Click the name of your computer's system to open its section.

macOS

Type each command into Terminal. If a command says that something is not installed, you never had it, or it is already gone: carry on with the next step.

1. Claude Code, if you installed it. Run:

   brew uninstall --cask claude-code@latest
   rm -rf ~/.claude ~/.claude.json

   The first line removes Claude Code. The second removes its settings and your sign-in.

2. Codex. Run:

   brew uninstall --cask codex
   rm -rf ~/.codex

   The first line removes Codex. The second removes its settings and your ChatGPT sign-in.

3. Node.js and pnpm. Run:

   corepack disable --install-directory "$(brew --prefix)/bin" pnpm
   brew uninstall node@24

   The first line removes the pnpm command. The second removes Node.js.

4. Make. Leave it. On a Mac, Make comes with Apple's Command Line Tools, which other programs need too. You didn't install anything extra for it.

5. Docker. Remove the one you chose on the Docker page. If you used OrbStack, run:

   brew uninstall --zap --cask orbstack

   If you used Docker Desktop, run:

   brew uninstall --zap --cask docker-desktop

   --zap also removes the program's settings and everything it stored, including any containers left behind. Type your Mac password if it asks.

6. Git and jq. Run:

   brew uninstall git jq

   git --version may still answer afterwards. That is Apple's own copy of Git, which comes with the Command Line Tools. Leave it.

7. Homebrew. Run:

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

   It lists what it will remove, and asks you to type y to go ahead. Type your Mac password if it asks.

   Homebrew's uninstaller leaves behind the line you pasted from its Next steps, which tells Terminal where brew was. Remove it with:

   sed -i '' '/brew shellenv/d' ~/.zprofile

   This deletes every line in the file ~/.zprofile that mentions brew shellenv, and nothing else.

Check that it worked. Close Terminal, open a new one, and run:

brew --version

You should see command not found: brew.

Windows

On Windows, there is a shortcut. Every tool except Docker Desktop lives inside Ubuntu. Delete Ubuntu, and Homebrew, Git, Make, Node.js, Codex and Claude Code go with it.

WARNING

Deleting Ubuntu deletes every file inside it, not only the course's tools. If you saved anything of your own in Ubuntu, copy it to Windows first. In the Ubuntu terminal, explorer.exe . opens the current Ubuntu folder in File Explorer, so you can drag files out.

1. Docker Desktop. Quit Docker Desktop: right-click the whale icon near the clock, and choose Quit Docker Desktop. Then click Start, open Settings, then Apps, then Installed apps. Find Docker Desktop, click the three dots next to it, and choose Uninstall.

2. Ubuntu. Click Start and type PowerShell. Right-click Windows PowerShell and choose Run as administrator. Click Yes. Then run:

   wsl --unregister Ubuntu

   This deletes Ubuntu and everything in it. It finishes in a few seconds.

3. WSL itself, only if nothing else on your computer uses it. In the same PowerShell window, run:

   wsl --uninstall

   Then restart your computer.

Check that it worked. In PowerShell, run:

wsl -l -v

Ubuntu is no longer in the list. If you also removed WSL, you see a message that WSL is not installed.

Linux

Type each command into the terminal. If a command says that something is not installed, you never had it, or it is already gone: carry on with the next step.

1. Claude Code, if you installed it. Run:

   brew uninstall --cask claude-code@latest
   rm -rf ~/.claude ~/.claude.json

   The first line removes Claude Code. The second removes its settings and your sign-in.

2. Codex. Run:

   brew uninstall --cask codex
   rm -rf ~/.codex

   The first line removes Codex. The second removes its settings and your ChatGPT sign-in.

3. Node.js and pnpm. Run:

   corepack disable --install-directory "$(brew --prefix)/bin" pnpm
   brew uninstall node@24

   The first line removes the pnpm command. The second removes Node.js.

4. Make. Leave it. Your system's build tools include Make, and other programs on Linux use it.

5. Docker. Docker's own install script added several packages. On Ubuntu or Debian, remove them with:

   sudo apt purge -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras

   On Fedora, run this instead:

   sudo dnf remove -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras

   Then delete what Docker stored, including any containers left behind:

   sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker /var/lib/containerd

   Type your password if it asks.

6. jq. On Ubuntu or Debian, run sudo apt remove -y jq. On Fedora, run sudo dnf remove -y jq. Leave Git: many Linux systems come with it, and other programs use it.

7. Homebrew. Run:

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

   It lists what it will remove, and asks you to type y to go ahead. Type your password if it asks.

   Homebrew's uninstaller leaves behind the line you pasted from its Next steps, which tells the terminal where brew was. Remove it with:

   sed -i '/brew shellenv/d' ~/.bashrc

   This deletes every line in the file ~/.bashrc that mentions brew shellenv, and nothing else.

Check that it worked. Close the terminal, open a new one, and run:

brew --version

You should see command not found: brew.

Accounts and services

Some of what the course set up isn't on your computer at all. It stays until you remove it where it lives:

• Your Telegram bot. Open @BotFather in Telegram, send /deletebot, and pick your bot. Leave or delete the test group you made, like any other Telegram group.
• Your Notion connection. Go to the Developer Connection portal on Notion, where you made it on Create a Notion connection. Open the connection you made for Louis, and delete it. This also cuts off its access to your pages.
• Your copy of the Louis template. In Notion, open the page's ••• menu and choose Move to Trash. Everything Louis wrote goes with it.
• Your ChatGPT plan, and your Claude plan if you have one. Removing Codex or Claude Code doesn't cancel them. Cancel them in your account settings on chatgpt.com and claude.ai, if you no longer want them.

Next

That is everything the course put on your computer, and everything it set up elsewhere. Thank you for building with us.