How to uninstall AMP

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As a general rule, if you’re experiencing problems with AMP - uninstalling and reinstalling are unlikely to solve your immediate problem. Please make a new support post so someone can help you out :slight_smile:

Be aware that uninstalling AMP will delete your existing AMP game servers and all their data - make sure to make copies of any data you want to keep.

Windows

  1. Open the ‘Services’ control panel (Win+R → services.msc → Enter)

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  2. Find the AMP-ADS01 service (May be called just AMP-ADS), right click it and Stop the service.

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  1. Open the AMP Instance Manager GUI application, and when given the AMP already configured prompt - select “No”

  2. Starting at the bottom, right click each instance in-turn and delete the instance. You will need to stop any running instances before deleting them.

  3. Close the AMP Instance Manager GUI app, and open the Add/Remove programs control panel. Find the “AMP Instance Manager” entry and select Uninstall.

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  1. To remove all data (including game servers) delete the AMPDatastore folder. It is usually under C:\ or the largest drive.

Linux

  1. Login as your amp user by doing sudo su -l amp

  2. Run ampinstmgr stopall to shut down AMP.

  3. Exit out of the amp user by running exit

  4. Login as root, either directly or by doing sudo su -

  5. Uninstall the ampinstmgr package using your distribution’s package manager. E.g. apt remove ampinstmgr or yum remove ampinstmgr

  6. Delete the amp system user along with its home directory:

    On Debian/Ubuntu/similar:

    deluser --remove-home amp

    On CentOS/Rocky/RHEL/similar:

    userdel --remove amp
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