How do I uninstall WavTap? (OS X 10.7.4)

[apolakipso]

I installed WavTap using the installer, running OS X 10.7.4.

I haven't seen anything on uninstalling on the page, so I simply deleted WavTap.app from the Applications folder. The WavTap device is still in my list of audio devices, but there is no related panel in the System Preferences or the like to remove it. Will this disappear after a restart?

As an issue, a quick info on how to properly uninstall WavTap would be useful. That is, when using the installer to install the application - I didn't see a makefile in WavTap.app, so the "make uninstall" mentioned on the home page wouldn't work, right?

[pje]

Yep, there's no Uninstaller yet (see Issue #15).

In the meantime, running sudo make uninstall from the cloned repo (& a system restart) should get rid of everything.

[Blergh]

Hi,
on the strength of the createdigitalmusic.com blog I installed this applet... on osx 10.6.8, with the simple installer.

Can you please, or anyone else for that matter, please provide a simple 'how-to-uninstall' procedure ? I'm having some significant problems with one of my Vst hosts and I need to rule wavtap out as the culprit. Btw people are crying out for instructions on how to uninstall it in the comments section of the createdigitalmusic.com article (published at the end of September). .... "running 'sudo make unsinstall' from the cloned repo" might as well be written in another language as far as my understanding of it goes.

Thanks!

[lxa108]

Hi, Blergh!

Hope you or someone else will find this note useful.
As you might find it in the makefile (from the application sources) there're several actions performed with uninstall commands for 'make'.

see here: https://github.com/pje/WavTap/blob/master/Makefile

However to properly erase WavTap from your system you have to use Terminal.app (under sudo or root user).

1- Unload kernel extenstion:

$kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/WavTap

or using the bundle name (e.g. kext file was already removed from a hdd)

$kextunload -b com.wavtap.driver.WavTap

or

2 - Remove the application itself_

$rm -rf /Applications/WavTap.app

3- Force to remove all other related files.

$rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/WavTap.kext
$rm -rf /Library/Receipts/WavTap*
$rm -rf /var/db/receipts/WavTap.
$rm -rf ~/Library/Services/WavTap.workflow

kind regards,
Alexey

[SharksFin]

hi

i cant get any of them commands to work

terminal keeps saying '-bash: -rf: command not found'

any help would be appreciated
cheers

[pennello]

Alexey's comment could benefit from separating the $ character and rm. rm is the command to run--its name is short for "remove".

I suspect you typed in literally:
$rm -rf ...
into your terminal.
This syntax will try to substitute whatever is in the rm shell variable, since you prefixed its mention with a $. However, since that wasn't defined, nothing was substituted. Therefore, the shell tried to run the "-rf" command, which doesn't exist.

You want to type in instead:
rm -rf ...
for each of those commands.
The presence of the $ character was to help indicate that you should be executing the commands in a shell.

[SharksFin]

many many thanks pennello
worked great
:)

[pje]

@pennello: thanks for chiming in! That's exactly right.

[pennello]

Any time!

[skianto]

Thank you Alex and Pennello. I have a Mac since a week. I figured out how to mange and get rid of this very nasty app. Many thanks to you ;-))

[pje]

Hey now, let's keep the comment bile here to a minimum. This app is still a prototype. It needs love.

[AnthonyArtmann]

What it needs is an uninstaller. :-(

[AnthonyArtmann]

"In the meantime, running sudo make uninstall from the cloned repo (& a system restart) should get rid of everything."

Can you elaborate on this? What is a cloned repo? I want this thing gone from my system.

[MiBiT-Discuss]

Thank you Asterfisch, that worked great.

I made an an applescript of it. Type the following into the script editor, run it or save it as an application and run that:

do shell script "rm -rf /Applications/WavTap.app" with administrator privileges
do shell script "rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/WavTap.kext" with administrator privileges
do shell script "rm -rf /Library/Receipts/WavTap*" with administrator privileges
do shell script "rm -rf /var/db/receipts/WavTap" with administrator privileges
do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Services/WavTap.workflow" with administrator privileges