Uninstalling NativeDev

Removing the application

sudo apt remove nativedev

or, from a source checkout:

./uninstall.sh

What is actually removed

Only the application itself and its two core Local Development integrations:

• /usr/bin/nativedev, /usr/lib/nativedev/app, the privileged helper, the desktop entry, and the Polkit policy
• The NetworkManager wildcard DNS snippets
• /etc/nginx/sites-available/nativedev-sites.conf (the park router) and its sites-enabled symlink

Your parked project directory's contents and filesystem ACLs are preserved untouched.

What is intentionally preserved

NativeDev is the management UI for standalone native services and tools — it is not their installer of record in the sense that removing NativeDev should not take those services down. Uninstalling NativeDev intentionally leaves working:

• Installed PHP versions and their NativeDev INI overrides
• Nginx, MariaDB/PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Mailpit, if installed
• phpMyAdmin/Adminer packages and their runtime configuration, including Adminer's SQLite storage
• /etc/nginx/conf.d/nativedev-tools.conf (the persistent developer-tool routing file)
• All database data and accounts
• All of your projects

Reinstalling NativeDev later detects and can manage these existing components again, exactly as it would detect anything installed independently of NativeDev.

If you also want the underlying services removed

Uninstalling NativeDev does not do this for you by design. Use each service's own package manager commands (apt remove <package>), or use NativeDev's own per-service uninstall actions (PHP versions, extensions, and databases each have a dedicated uninstall flow — see PHP management and Services & databases) before removing NativeDev itself, since those flows include NativeDev's own safety checks (for example the APT removal-impact simulation described in Security model).