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Trying to uninstall Splunk Enterprise 7.0.1.0 from Windows 10

wberkowicz
New Member

Trying to uninstall Splunk Enterprise 7.0.1.0 from Windows 10.  I get a message from the uninstall process to "Insert the 'Splunk Enterprise' disk and click OK."

The issue is I don't have a "Splunk Enterprise" disk.  Nor is there an msi file to use.

 

Please advise.

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Richfez
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Maybe just try to upgrade it to the oldest 8.x version you can get on the downloads page, then uninstall it after that?

 

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wberkowicz
New Member

I tried several different prior versions.  Splunk only accepts the single msi that was used to install and that is not available: splunk-7.0.1-2b5b15c4ee89-x64-release.msi

I will need to manually start surgical removal of the prior version.  

Definitely a negative when trying Splunk.

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SanjayReddy
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
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wberkowicz
New Member

Ultimately, it was time for a new machine.  

Upshot: Not installing Splunk on the new machine to avoid this from happening again.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This is actually a MSI quirk. I've seen it happen with various softwares over last 20+ years. And yes, it's frustrating.

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