Uninstall

Uninstalling the server or the bridge removes the program and keeps its data: the server’s database with its users, keys and party lines, its backups, and the bridge’s configuration with its bridge key. A later install picks them up again. To remove everything, delete the folders listed below after you uninstall.

Windows

Open Settings → Apps → Installed apps, find livematrix server or livematrix bridge and choose Uninstall.

Program	Data left behind
Server	C:\ProgramData\livematrix
Bridge	C:\ProgramData\livematrix\bridge

The bridge folder is inside the server’s. If both run on the same machine, deleting C:\ProgramData\livematrix removes the bridge configuration too.

macOS

Drag livematrix server or livematrix bridge from Applications to the Trash. It stops within a few seconds, and macOS removes it from Login Items, at the latest the next time you log in.

Program	Data left behind
Server	~/Library/Application Support/livematrix/server, in the home folder of the user the server ran for
Bridge	~/Library/Application Support/livematrix/bridge, in the home folder of the user the bridge ran for

Linux

sudo apt-get purge livematrix-server
sudo apt-get purge livematrix-bridge

purge also removes the firewall rules the package added and the server’s settings in /etc/livematrix. remove keeps both.

Program	Data left behind
Server	/var/lib/livematrix
Bridge	/var/lib/livematrix-bridge

Docker

docker compose down

down removes the containers and keeps the volumes, with the server’s database and backups and the bridge’s configuration. docker compose down --volumes deletes them too. See Run in Docker.

The server’s backups are in a backups folder inside its data folder. Copy them somewhere else first if you might want the server back.