Add an uninstaller to the native tarball version.

[gsfreaK]

I created an uninstaller that I tested on my system and it's working fine. It would be nice if you added it to your host (https://updates.zen-browser.app/install.sh and https://updates.zen-browser.app/uninstall.sh) and to the GitHub instructions of how to remove/uninstall it.

#!/bin/bash

set -euo pipefail

app_name="zen"
literal_name_of_installation_directory=".tarball-installations"
universal_path_for_installation_directory="$HOME/$literal_name_of_installation_directory"
app_installation_directory="$universal_path_for_installation_directory/zen"
local_bin_path="$HOME/.local/bin"
local_application_path="$HOME/.local/share/applications"
app_bin_in_local_bin="$local_bin_path/$app_name"
desktop_in_local_applications="$local_application_path/$app_name.desktop"
icon_path="$app_installation_directory/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png"

echo "Uninstalling Zen Browser..."

Remove the executable from local bin

if [ -f "$app_bin_in_local_bin" ]; then
echo "Removing executable from $local_bin_path"
rm "$app_bin_in_local_bin"
else
echo "No executable found in $local_bin_path"
fi

Remove the desktop entry

if [ -f "$desktop_in_local_applications" ]; then
echo "Removing desktop entry from $local_application_path"
rm "$desktop_in_local_applications"
else
echo "No desktop entry found in $local_application_path"
fi

Remove the installation directory

if [ -d "$app_installation_directory" ]; then
echo "Removing application files from $app_installation_directory"
rm -rf "$app_installation_directory"
else
echo "No application directory found at $app_installation_directory"
fi

Remove the installation root directory if it's empty

if [ -d "$universal_path_for_installation_directory" ] && [ "$(ls -A $universal_path_for_installation_directory)" ]; then
echo "Cleaning up $universal_path_for_installation_directory"
rm -rf "$universal_path_for_installation_directory"
else
echo "No tarball installation directory found at $universal_path_for_installation_directory"
fi

echo "Uninstallation complete!"

[Go-rom]

Wow thanks 👍🏻 , it was worth going through this repository before as I was about to write a similar script.

Here's a suggestion you could add if the user wants to manually delete the profile directory

echo "Please note that this script will NOT delete your profile directory but if you wish to do so manually, here are the folders you have to trash :"
echo "$HOME/.cache/zen"
echo "$HOME/.zen"

Also to prevent your comments from becoming headlines here, you should place your script inside a code block in order to get this :

#!/bin/bash

set -euo pipefail

app_name="zen" literal_name_of_installation_directory=".tarball-installations" universal_path_for_installation_directory="$HOME/$literal_name_of_installation_directory" app_installation_directory="$universal_path_for_installation_directory/zen" local_bin_path="$HOME/.local/bin" local_application_path="$HOME/.local/share/applications" app_bin_in_local_bin="$local_bin_path/$app_name" desktop_in_local_applications="$local_application_path/$app_name.desktop" icon_path="$app_installation_directory/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png"

echo "Uninstalling Zen Browser..."

# Remove the executable from local bin
if [ -f "$app_bin_in_local_bin" ]; then
echo "Removing executable from $local_bin_path"
rm "$app_bin_in_local_bin"
else
echo "No executable found in $local_bin_path"
fi

# Remove the desktop entry
if [ -f "$desktop_in_local_applications" ]; then
echo "Removing desktop entry from $local_application_path"
rm "$desktop_in_local_applications"
else
echo "No desktop entry found in $local_application_path"
fi

# Remove the installation directory
if [ -d "$app_installation_directory" ]; then
echo "Removing application files from $app_installation_directory"
rm -rf "$app_installation_directory"
else
echo "No application directory found at $app_installation_directory"
fi

# Remove the installation root directory if it's empty
if [ -d "$universal_path_for_installation_directory" ] && [ "$(ls -A $universal_path_for_installation_directory)" ]; then
echo "Cleaning up $universal_path_for_installation_directory"
rm -rf "$universal_path_for_installation_directory"
else
echo "No tarball installation directory found at $universal_path_for_installation_directory"
fi

echo "Uninstallation complete!"

[Go-rom]

Install instructions have been removed from README : 12011c7

And I haven't found these instructions elsewhere.

It's a bit disappointing because it's a good alternative to flatpak/AppImage even if the script is still online.

For those who are looking for these instructions, here they are :

Linux

Arch-based distributions

yay -S zen-browser-bin

Other Linux distributions (Tarball or AppImage)

• Tarball install:

bash <(curl -s https://updates.zen-browser.app/install.sh)

• AppImage install:

bash <(curl https://updates.zen-browser.app/appimage.sh)