Uninstalling MERLIC

Depending on your operating system, different options for uninstalling MERLIC are available.

Windows

There are different ways to uninstall MERLIC on Windows as described below.

Uninstalling via the System Control Panel

  1. Open the Windows Control Panel.
  2. Navigate to "Programs" > "Programs and Features" .
  3. Navigate to the MERLIC installation and right-click on the name to uninstall MERLIC via the context menu.

Uninstalling via the Windows Settings

  1. Open the "Apps" panel in the Windows settings.
  2. Navigate to the MERLIC installation and use the respective menu to uninstall MERLIC.

Uninstalling via the MVTec Software Manager (SOM)

When using SOM, you can remove the MERLIC installation on the "Installed" page. You will need administrator credentials to remove MERLIC. For more information, see the documentation of the MVTec Software Manager: Installing MVTec products with the Software Manager.

SOM also detects MVTec products that have been installed by other means, for example, a MERLIC 5.0 version that has been installed via the previous offline installer. However, these installations cannot be updated or uninstalled via SOM.

Removed Components

Only the files that were installed will be removed. If you manually added files after the installation, for example, new images or tools, these files and the corresponding directories will not be removed. However, be aware that files with modified content will be removed. Therefore, you might want to copy such files to another directory before uninstalling MERLIC.

In addition, separate components such as a dongle driver or the licensing software CodeMeter will not be uninstalled as they might be needed by another application.

Linux

MERLIC provides no script to uninstall MERLIC on a Linux systems. Therefore, you have to remove the installation manually:

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rm -rf <MERLIC_INSTALLATION>

Uninstalling "CodeMeter Runtime"

When uninstalling MERLIC, only components of MERLIC will be removed. "CodeMeter Runtime", the licensing software used by MERLIC, will not be removed. Therefore, you have to uninstall "CodeMeter Runtime" separately, provided it is no longer required by any other software.