# Uninstall Flutter

> How to remove the Flutter SDK and clean up its configuration files.



To remove the Flutter SDK from your development machine,
delete the directories that store Flutter and its configuration files.

## Choose your development platform {: #dev-platform }

The instructions on this page are configured to cover
uninstall Flutter on a **Windows**{:.selected-os-text} device.

If you'd like to follow the instructions for a different OS,
please select one of the following.

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## Uninstall the Flutter SDK {: #uninstall }

 1. <h3>Determine your Flutter SDK installation location</h3>

    Copy the absolute path to the directory that you
    downloaded and extracted the Flutter SDK into.

 1. <h3>Remove the installation directory</h3>

    To uninstall the Flutter SDK,
    delete the `flutter` directory you installed Flutter to.

    For example, if you downloaded Flutter into a
    `develop\flutter` folder inside your user directory,
    run the following command to delete the SDK:

    ```ps
    $ Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Path (Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE "develop\flutter")
    ```

{: .steps .windows-only}

 1. <h3>Determine your Flutter SDK installation location</h3>

    Copy the absolute path to the directory that you
    downloaded and extracted the Flutter SDK into.

 1. <h3>Remove the installation directory</h3>

    To uninstall the Flutter SDK,
    delete the `flutter` directory you installed Flutter to.

    For example, if you downloaded Flutter into a
    `develop/flutter` folder inside your user directory,
    run the following command to delete the SDK:

    ```console
    $ rm -rf ~/develop/flutter
    ```

{: .steps .macos-only .linux-only .chromeos-only }

## Clean up installation and configuration files {: #cleanup }

Flutter and Dart add to additional directories in your home directory.
These contain configuration files and package downloads.
The following cleanup is optional.

 1. <h3>Remove Flutter configuration directories</h3>

    If you don't want to preserve your Flutter tooling configuration,
    remove the following directories from your device.

    <div class="windows-only">

    - `%APPDATA%\.flutter-devtools`

    To remove these directories, run the following command:

    ```ps
    $ Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Path (Join-Path $env:APPDATA ".flutter-devtools")
    ```

    </div>

    <div class="macos-only linux-only chromeos-only">

    - `~/.flutter`
    - `~/.flutter-devtools`
    - `~/.flutter_settings`

    To remove these directories, run the following command:

    ```ps
    $ rm -rf  ~/.flutter ~/.flutter-devtools ~/.flutter_settings
    ```

    </div>

 1. <h3>Remove Dart configuration directories</h3>

    If you don't want to preserve your Dart tooling configuration,
    remove the following directories from your device.

    <div class="windows-only">

    - `%APPDATA%\.dart`
    - `%APPDATA%\.dart-tool`
    - `%LOCALAPPDATA%\.dartServer`

    To remove these directories, run the following command:

    ```console
    $ Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Path (Join-Path $env:APPDATA ".dart"), (Join-Path $env:APPDATA ".dart-tool"), (Join-Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA ".dartServer")
    ```

    </div>

    <div class="macos-only linux-only chromeos-only">

    - `~/.dart`
    - `~/.dart-tool`
    - `~/.dartServer`

    To remove these directories, run the following command:

    ```console
    $ rm -rf  ~/.dart ~/.dart-tool ~/.dartServer
    ```

    </div>

 1. <h3>Remove pub package directories</h3>

    If you don't want to preserve your locally installed pub packages,
    remove the [pub system cache][] directory from your device.

    <div class="windows-only">

    If you didn't change the location of the pub system cache,
    run the following command to
    delete the `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Pub\Cache` directory:

    ```ps
    $ Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Path (Join-Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA "Pub\Cache")
    ```

    </div>

    <div class="macos-only linux-only chromeos-only">

    If you didn't change the location of the pub system cache,
    run the following command to delete the `~/.pub-cache` directory:

    ```console
    $ rm -rf ~/.pub-cache
    ```

    </div>

{: .steps }

[pub system cache]: https://dart.dev/tools/pub/glossary#system-cache

## Reinstall Flutter {: #reinstall }

You can [reinstall Flutter][flutter-install] or
[just Dart][dart-install] at any time.
If you removed any configuration directories,
reinstalling Flutter restores them to default settings.

[flutter-install]: /install
[dart-install]: https://dart.dev/get-dart