uninstall silverlight on mac os x

Question

i want to remove silverlight from my mac os x completely - can you tell me how i do that? thank you :-) lyla

Answer 1

rm -rf /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin
rm -rf /Library/Receipts/Silverlight*.pkg
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Silverlight

Answer 2

what's rm -rf / stands for?

Answer 3

what's rm -rf / stands for?

rm = remove

-r = recursively

-f = force

If you open a terminal window on a Mac, you can use those commands to delete files.  You can also type "man rm" (without the quotes) in a terminal window for more details on the 'rm' command

 

Answer 4

In the interest of preventing someone a big heartache I feel like i should chime in here and let it be known that it would be a really, really bad idea run the "rm -rf" command with the root of the file system "/" as an argument: that would unlink your entire filesystem.  In other words erase all your files on your mac.  Don't do it. :)

Answer 5

On Snow Leopard the receipts are stored in a different location, try looking here and deleting the receipt if its found: /var/db/receipts

Answer 6

Thanks! This helped -- the extra receipt files to remove, in addition the ones above, were listed in

/var/db/receipts

com.microsoft.installSilverlightPlugin.bom
com.microsoft.installSilverlightPlugin.plist

I searched for "uninstall silverlight for osx" to reach this page -- hope it helps someone.

Answer 7

 Try This:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=474827

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970064

 

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Answer 8

I can removed Silver Light 5 with this information.

Many thanks!

Answer 9

Hi ,

You can easily remove silverlight from Mac os, go to applications and you will see silverlight folder just drag that folder to trash and empty that trash as well , deffinately your silverlight will be uninstalled  and this is the very simple way to do that .

 

 

Regards

Ashish