Removing a plugin

You have installed some plugins and now you need to remove a plugin because it's not required. Removing an ElasticSearch plugin is easy to uninstall if everything goes right, otherwise you need to manually remove it.

This recipe covers both cases.

Getting ready

You need an installed working ElasticSearch server with an installed plugin. Stop the ElasticSearch server in order to safely remove the plugin.

How to do it...

ElasticSearch Plugin Manager, which comes with its script wrapper (plugin), provides command to automatically remove a plugin.

• On Linux and MacOSX, call:

  plugin -remove mobz/elasticsearch-head           
  

  or

  plugin -remove head           
  

• On Windows, call:

  plugin.bat -remove mobz/elasticsearch-head      
  

  or

  plugin.bat –remove head
  

How it works...

The Plugin Manager –remove command tries to detect the correct name of the plugin and remove the directory of the installed plugin.

If there are undeletable files in your plugin directory (or a strange astronomical event...