# Safe uninstall of ParaView on Ubuntu
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/safe-uninstall-of-paraview-on-ubuntu/4705
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 28, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/safe-uninstall-of-paraview-on-ubuntu/4705 "2020-06-28T15:24:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@dld](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/dld)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/safe-uninstall-of-paraview-on-ubuntu/4705/1 "2020-06-28T15:24:17Z")
Hi there,
I installed ParaView 5.7.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 by following some advice on here: dowloading the tar.gz release from the Downloads tab, unpacking it, and then copying the whole directory into /opt. I now want to replace this with the newer release (5.8.0). Is it safe to just ‘rm -rf’ that old directory in /opt and copy the new one in? Or is that a dangerous way to uninstall that potentially breaks something, or leaves some artefacts? Sorry if I missed this in the docs - if it’s not in there, just a line or two on how to safely uninstall/update would be very handy for relative newbies like me! Cheers 🙂
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/safe-uninstall-of-paraview-on-ubuntu/4705/2 "2020-06-29T03:22:58Z")
Yes, it is safe.
By the way, we do not suggest to copy into `/opt/`. The .tar.gz will work from anywhere.