Uninstalling pnpm

Removing the globally installed packages#

Before removing the pnpm CLI, it might make sense to remove all global packages that were installed by pnpm.

To list all the global packages, run pnpm ls -g. There are two ways to remove the global packages:

  1. Run pnpm rm -g <pkg>... with each global package listed.
  2. Run pnpm root -g to find the location of the global directory and remove it manually.

Removing the pnpm CLI#

If you used the standalone script to install pnpm, then you should be able to uninstall the pnpm CLI by removing the pnpm home directory:

rm -rf "$PNPM_HOME"

You might also want to clean the PNPM_HOME env variable in your shell configuration file ($HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.zshrc or $HOME/.config/fish/config.fish).

If you used npm to install pnpm, then you should use npm to uninstall pnpm:

npm rm -g pnpm

Removing the global content-addressable store#

rm -rf "$(pnpm store path)"

If you used pnpm in non-primary disks, then you must run the above command in every disk, where pnpm was used. pnpm creates one store per disk. On a disk other than the one with the pnpm home directory, the store is a .pnpm-store directory near the root of the disk, or node_modules/.pnpm-store inside the project.

Removing the cache, state, and configuration#

pnpm also writes to these directories. Remove them too:

  • the cache directory, see cacheDir for its default location
  • the state directory, see stateDir for its default location
  • the directory of the global configuration file, see Global configuration