Completely remove Stack from Windows 10

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I am running Windows 10, VSCode, and have the Haskell Extension Pack installed.

I also have Stack installed, and would like to temporarily uninstall it to make sure I can document and explain use of Stack with Haskell in VSCode on Windows 10.

stack's command help states that the stack uninstall command is deprecated.

Q1: Do I even need to do this? Is stack automatically installed with the VSCode Haskell Extension Pack? My investigation does not indicate this.

Q2. To uninstall stack (JUST TEMPORARILY! I LIKE IT!) how is this done? Is there a new command? Do I need to use some other install manager? Do I simply delete an executable and helper files?

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2 Answers

As far as I recall, on Windows, Stack is a program you install. I haven't tried to uninstall it, but it appears in Apps & features with an Uninstall button:

Apps & features screen shot

Have you tried clicking that button?

FWIW, the official Stack documentation also has a sentence about uninstalling:

Removing ~/.stack and /usr/local/bin/stack should be sufficient. You may want to delete .stack-work folders in any Haskell projects that you have built.

user_1260140

To remove stack you will need to manually delete the following:

  1. C:\sr
  2. %AppData%\Roaming\stack

Just running uninstall won't remove those folders from your system.

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