Can't uninstall on Ubuntu 18.04

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A user, online_0227, is having trouble uninstalling Discourse on Ubuntu 18.04 after following a guide for development installation. They tried stopping the app with the command ./launcher stop app but it didn’t work. EricGT pointed out that the command is used with Docker containers, which wasn’t used in the installation. To uninstall, online_0227 is considering deleting the folder and resetting the PostgreSQL database. However, EricGT couldn’t provide further assistance on resetting PostgreSQL as they haven’t tried it before.

1

I followed guide here:

and now I want to remove it along with database, and possibly re-install so that I get clean one.

command like:
. /launcher stop app

it doesn’t.

This is discourse’s file sturctures:

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2

I my be wrong, but you installed Discousre on to a bare machine and the command

./launcher stop app

is for use with Docker container which uses the launcher command.

Since you did not install using the Docker instructions there is no launcher command.

3

So then I can simply delete that folder and maybe re-initialize postgre db to reset discourse?
If so, how do I reset postgre?

Thank you.

4

I can not answer that as I created my first development Discourse host using WSL 2 on Windows 10 just a few days ago and have not tried to remove it. I do plan to remove and do the the instructions again to make sure it was not first time users luck.