How to Remove SaltStack from Centos 8

[myjewels]

Description of Issue/Question

I installed SaltStack on my CentOS 8 machine using this bootstrap script but could not figure out how to uninstall it. I need instructions on how to uninstall SaltStrck from CentOS 8 since the "yum list installed" command does not show any package related to salt.

Setup

I used the following commands to install SaltStack:
curl -o bootstrap-salt.sh -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sh bootstrap-salt.sh git master

Steps to Reproduce Issue

yum list installed | egrep -i salt

Versions and Systems

Salt Version:
Salt: 3001-n/a-4ebd81b

Dependency Versions:
cffi: 1.11.5
cherrypy: Not Installed
dateutil: 2.6.1
docker-py: Not Installed
gitdb: Not Installed
gitpython: Not Installed
Jinja2: 2.11.2
libgit2: Not Installed
M2Crypto: Not Installed
Mako: Not Installed
msgpack-pure: Not Installed
msgpack-python: 1.0.0
mysql-python: Not Installed
pycparser: 2.14
pycrypto: Not Installed
pycryptodome: 3.9.8
pygit2: Not Installed
Python: 3.6.8 (default, Apr 16 2020, 01:36:27)
python-gnupg: Not Installed
PyYAML: 5.3.1
PyZMQ: 19.0.2
smmap: Not Installed
timelib: Not Installed
Tornado: 4.5.3
ZMQ: 4.3.2

System Versions:
dist: centos 8 Core
locale: UTF-8
machine: x86_64
release: 4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64
system: Linux
version: CentOS Linux 8 Core
bootstrap-salt.sh -- Version 2020.06.23
(salt --versions-report, bootstrap-salt.sh -v, system type and version,
cloud/VM provider as appropriate.)

[dmurphy18]

The bootstrap command you used is most likely to have pip installed it given that you do not find it in the yum repository and

Salt: 3001-n/a-4ebd81b

is not a released package version.

Use pip3 uninstall to remove it.

pip3 list | grep -i salt should show the names to uninstall, in case you also installed other salt components.

If this resolves your issue, please consider closing it.

[myjewels]

Thank you @dmurphy18 for your reply. I tried to uninstalled Salt as you suggested. Salt is uninstalled now but there is still a problem. Here is the output of the "pip3 list" command:

[root@centos8 ~]# pip3 list | grep -i salt
DEPRECATION: The default format will switch to columns in the future. You can use --format=(legacy|columns) (or define a format=(legacy|columns) in your pip.conf under the [list] section) to disable this warning.
salt (3001.1)

So I tried to uninstall salt as shown below:

[root@centos8 ~]# pip3 uninstall salt

It looks like it worked! I rebooted the server after uninstalling salt as shown above, but systemd still tried to load salt services as shown below:

[root@centos8 ~]# systemctl | grep -i salt
● salt-master.service                                                                       loaded failed failed    The Salt Master Server 
● salt-minion.service                                                                       loaded failed failed    The Salt Minion
● salt-syndic.service                                                                       loaded failed failed    The Salt Master Server 

It does not look like a clean uninstall. Any solution for this?

[bryceml]

with pip uninstalling, there probably isn't a cleaner solution than doing

sudo find /|grep -i salt

and removing relevant files in order to get all of the service/config/log/etc. files.

[barbaricyawps]

This issue is related to: #1452

[dmurphy18]

@myjewels Closing this as duplicate of #1844, will handle it with that feature request