# How to uninstall compiled UE?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-uninstall-compiled-ue/2605820>\
**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** engine-compile, unreal-engine, question\
**Created:** [July 15, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-uninstall-compiled-ue/2605820 "2025-07-15T18:58:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![RokeJulianLockhart](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/rokejulianlockhart/32/973764_2.png) [@RokeJulianLockhart](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/RokeJulianLockhart)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-uninstall-compiled-ue/2605820/1 "2025-07-15T18:58:39Z")

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#### Context

I’d like to restart a potentially corrupt compilation:

> [@Does UE compilation require Qt 5?](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/does-ue-compilation-require-qt-5/2605816):
>
> During this, I saw some errata (chronologically undermentioned): This shouldn’t be X11 these days. Regardless, it could at least adhere to the DE’s anti-alias preferences. Removing corrupt toolchain and redownloading This probably isn’t of any importance, considering that UE remediated it. /usr/bin/xdg-mime: line 885: qtpaths: command not found Considering that dnf5 provides /usr/bin/qtpaths returns results: qt5-qttools-5.15.17-1.fc42.x86\_64 : …

#### Progress

I’ve tried removing the `.desktop` files:

> **[Why does Application Launcher display a supposedly deleted \`.desktop\` file?](https://discuss.kde.org/t/why-does-application-launcher-display-a-supposedly-deleted-desktop-file/37096?u=rokejulianlockhart)**
>
> Thought I’d get a head-start on: …by manually removing its broken .desktop files via kmenuedit: However, Application Launcher continues to display them:

…and it doesn’t appear to have been added to `$PATH`:

```log
RokeJulianLockhart@Beedell:~$ echo $PATH
/home/RokeJulianLockhart/.local/bin:/home/RokeJulianLockhart/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/RokeJulianLockhart/.dotnet/tools

```

What else should be done, bar `rm -r /home/RokeJulianLockhart/Documents/The_Unsanitised/Git_Repositories/Unreal_Engine/`?