This topic applies to WebSphere Application Server Liberty V8.5.5.9 and earlier. For the latest Liberty topics, see the WebSphere Application Server Liberty documentation.
Uninstalling Liberty from distributed operating systems by using response files
You can uninstall WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Core by using Installation Manager response files.
Before you begin
Optional: Perform or record the installation of Installation Manager
and installation of the product to a temporary installation registry on one of your systems so that
you can use this temporary registry to record the uninstall without using the standard registry
where Installation Manager is installed.
About this task
Using Installation Manager, you can work with response files to uninstall the product in various ways. You can record a response file by using the GUI as described in the following procedure. Or, you can generate a new response file by hand or by taking an example and modifying it.
Procedure

Example
The following is an example of a response file for uninstalling the
product.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input clean='true' temporary='true'>
<uninstall modify='false'>
<offering id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.v85'
profile='WebSphere Liberty V8.5'/>
</uninstall>
<profile id='WebSphere Liberty V8.5'
installLocation='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Liberty'>
</profile>
</agent-input>
Tip: When you uninstall the IBM
WebSphere Application Server LibertyCore package, you must uninstall all the packages under the same package group that are
extensions to the IBM
WebSphere Application Server LibertyCore package. IBM
WebSphere SDK Java™
Technology Edition Version 7.0 for Liberty is such an extension. To uninstall the entire package
group, remove the id attribute in the <offering ../> stanza
(id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.v85' in
the previous example) from the response file. Installation Manager then uninstalls all of the
packages under the package group.